Make sure that you also have installed Vmware tools and are running the
improved NIC.

Siobhán


On 11/10/06 5:29 AM, "Shyam Hegde" <hegde.shyam AT GMAIL DOT COM> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> We are backing up a Windows 2000 server which is a virtual server on VMware
> setup. NetWorker 7.2.1 on SUN Solaris backs this client up over LAN and we
> observe the throughput most of the times is in kb's and 1.5mb/s max and
> takes 4 days to complete a 'full' of 400GB volume.
> We have similar server (hosted with same amount of resources - RAM,
> Processors etc. on VMware)  backing up with much better throughput.
> 
> Are there any ways I can get better throughput in such situations? I have
> done few fine tuning methods which seems to have no effect on this behavior.
> Also is there anyway by which I can check start and end time for each
> volumes, by which I can compare and find out if the problem exists backup of
> only this perticular volume of the client.
> 
> TIA, Shyam.
> :)
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