If you are doing any MSCS clusters you will have to use client based
backups for them.
For Windows guests, you can do file level vStorage restores from vmware
API proxy backups. It is a flash backup so if it is a large VM,
restoring just 1 file might take a little bit longer than a traditional
backup. If you have any Linux guests, I think you will need NBU 7.1 to
do file level restores and I imagine there are some restrictions on
filesystems and LVM config.
You will probably need a combination of both. Agent based backups for
databases and exchange and systems where you are particularly interested
in consistent backups with incremental backups (EG: AD).
On 10/31/2011 10:48 AM, Howard Graylin wrote:
Are any of y'all doing backups of your vmware guests (windows) using
the vmware api within Netbackup? If so, what do you think of it as
opposed to installing the client on the guest itself? I've read some
of the documentation and I'm confused as to whether or not I need to
use the api for file level restores or the vcb stuff for it? And
last, how many guests are you backing up and how many windows media
servers do you use for this?
Emailed our NBU reps to get a meeting with them, but also wanted some
"real world" advice as well. Also, thanks to those of you that
responded to my email about Exchange 2010. It's working like a champ now.
Howard
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