That's fine if you have a small number to backup. The problem begins when you have a large number of VM's to backup. When you have agents installed in your VM's then the processing overhead can significantly affect the performance of your ESX host. With backup proxy the backup processing is done on the backup proxy instead of ESX host.
Original Message: ----------------- From: Michael Leone [email protected] Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:52:11 -0400 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VMWare tools On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote: > I've set up some backup scripts to make my own VCB backups. It was > pretty painless. > I'm by no means a script expert either. I have 10 ESX hosts. I don't do VCB backups at all; I backup each VM exactly as I did when it was a physical host (i.e., using Networker installed in the VM). So I don't need the VMs to be quiescent, before backup (which wouldn't happen here, anyway). ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
