On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:05 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > That's fine if you have a small number to backup.
About 60 .... > 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. Hmmm ... I will think on that. Thanks! > > 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/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
