Anacreo,
We SANS VCB also here but when ever i start the backup VCB is doing a SNAP
(Copying to local disk on VCB) and then doing a backup.
Is this happening to you as well.

During the VCB mounting VM's my storage node is pretty much unresponsive.
Our server is 2 quad cores with 8 GB mem.

Any input is helpful.

-Venkat

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Anacreo <anacreo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> We're using NW 7.5.1 and backing up about 200 VM's...  (300 more to come
> this month).
>
> We don't have much data under each VM and we've gone sans VCB and are very
> happy with it.
>
> Buy a license for each VMWare ESX server as a virtual client connection,
> install client under every VM, and dump them into a few groups...  We're
> only doing full's once a month, and have not experienced complaints.  We
> tried to group the VMWare clients by application so they are spread more
> evenly across the farm.
>
> We are not getting backups of the actual vmdk today, but this hasn't been
> seen as a significant issue in our environment, also eventually when CDP is
> brought in they'll get point in time snapshots.
>
> Alec
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Ken Gehring <ken.gehring AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
>
> > For NW7.4.4 (and I assume NW7.4.2
> > You need to configure each ESX host and each ESX client.
> > Each host will use 2 licenses and each client will be free (they use
> > the second license for the host).
> > You will need to install the networker client on each VM Instance.
> >
> > VCB is better supported in NW7.6 and that may be an option for you.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Venkat Tudi <venkat.tudi AT gmail DOT com>
> > wrote:
> > > Currently we are using VRANGER for backing up the VM instances uising
> > VCB.
> > > We want to eliminate VRANGER and use only Networker for our Backups.
> > >
> > > We are on 7.4.2
> > >
> > > Here are my questions.
> > > Do I need to configure each client in the NW Server or Do I only
> > configure
> > >  the ESX host in NWSERVER?
> > > If I configure each VM instance in NW do I need to install the NW
> client
> > on
> > > the each VM instance? There are thousands of the instances.
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