Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware clients
On 5/13/2010 4:05 PM, Victor Engle wrote: Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup server is solaris. Thanks, Vic ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu I am waiting until we get our infrastructure to vSphere 4.0 and NBU 7 to do vStorage backups which seem to be da bomb digity. All the ducks just got lined up in a row for this just recently, but I'll still wait until June to make sure nothing comes out in the field from other people. DataDomain's DDBoost just came out which is their new OST plugin which supports NBU 7. It also does some media server side de-duplication processing which I am hoping leads the way to global de-dupe and client side de-dupe. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] VMware clients
Vstorage does not scale well at all. We had it backing up around 1000 vm clients and crashed Vcenter everytime. David Stanaway wrote: On 5/13/2010 4:05 PM, Victor Engle wrote: Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup server is solaris. Thanks, Vic ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu I am waiting until we get our infrastructure to vSphere 4.0 and NBU 7 to do vStorage backups which seem to be da bomb digity. All the ducks just got lined up in a row for this just recently, but I'll still wait until June to make sure nothing comes out in the field from other people. DataDomain's DDBoost just came out which is their new OST plugin which supports NBU 7. It also does some media server side de-duplication processing which I am hoping leads the way to global de-dupe and client side de-dupe. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu +-- |This was sent by josh.op...@salliemae.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware clients
1000 clients simultaneously? Across how many hosts? Did you troubleshoot at all with VMware support? -Jonathan -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of jopper Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:12 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] VMware clients Vstorage does not scale well at all. We had it backing up around 1000 vm clients and crashed Vcenter everytime. David Stanaway wrote: On 5/13/2010 4:05 PM, Victor Engle wrote: Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup server is solaris. Thanks, Vic ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu I am waiting until we get our infrastructure to vSphere 4.0 and NBU 7 to do vStorage backups which seem to be da bomb digity. All the ducks just got lined up in a row for this just recently, but I'll still wait until June to make sure nothing comes out in the field from other people. DataDomain's DDBoost just came out which is their new OST plugin which supports NBU 7. It also does some media server side de-duplication processing which I am hoping leads the way to global de-dupe and client side de-dupe. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu +-- |This was sent by josh.op...@salliemae.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] VMware clients
[quote=Martin, Jonathan]1000 clients simultaneously? Across how many hosts? Did you troubleshoot at all with VMware support? -Jonathan Not all at once. We were able to crash Vcenter with only 21 clients running at once. We were using 1 master and 2 media servers. We have had a case open with VMware and Symantec. The issue is with the number of open cifs connections. Vcenter does not always close these sessions. VMware says this is a known issue and they are working on it. Symantec has also been able to recreate the issue. They are working on a solution. +-- |This was sent by josh.op...@salliemae.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] VMware clients
Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup server is solaris. Thanks, Vic ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware clients
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Victor Engle victor.en...@gmail.comwrote: Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup server is solaris. There are a ton of options. Start at http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=15143, enter vmware backup, and review the results. The answers also change depending on what release of NetBackup you're on and what guests you're running. You can also google/goodsearch for vnetbackup vmware best practices. Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/ewilts ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] VMware clients
Vic At the moment, I am doing client based backups. Am looking into VCB / VMware backups and integration with NetBackup 6.5 I know v7 offers a hell of alot more, but I am not in a position to upgrade yet! Not saying what I am doing is right, but its better than nothing. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Victor Engle Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 10:05 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] VMware clients Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup server is solaris. Thanks, Vic ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
