Of course you aware of the two step restore process
that you are faced with but there is no reason this
should not work for you.

The new version of NetWorker coming at the end of the
year will have enhanced VCB support so be sure to take
a close look at that before you make any decisions.

-S

--- brerrabbit <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
wrote:

> Greetings
> 
> I'm trying to re-design the way we do backups for
> our vm's and would appreciate any feedback. 
> Currently we use the vRanger product to do LAN
> backups of about 100 vm's, which are then copied to
> our NAS, where Networker grabs them and backs them
> up to tape.
> 
> This system works, and I love vRanger, but the
> overall process is slow, kludgy, and will not scale
> well.  Scalabilty is important as we are expecting a
> lot of growth in the number of vm's next year,
> approx 100 more or so.
> 
> Despite the fact that I have less than 6 months
> exposure to Networker (and haven't had a class yet
> grumblegrumble) I'm contemplating the following:
> 
> 1) Reconfigure our vRanger machine (a Win2k3 sp2
> server) to attach to our SAN and configure it as a
> VCB proxy.
> 2) Additionally install Networker and configure it
> as a storage node.  We're at v 7.3.3 and our NW
> Server is also a Win 2k3 sp2 server fwiw.
> 3) Use the vRanger software and VCB to backup the
> vm's via FC
> 4) Use Networker to backup the vRanger flatfile
> backups to VTL via FC.  Our VTL's are configured to
> clone to tape for long-term-ish retention.
> 
> What I like about this is that it a) avoids backup
> traffic over the LAN, b) will scale better without
> the NAS/NDMP steps, and c) should be much faster.
> 
> I think that this would capture the strengths of
> vRanger, VCB, and Networker, but I don't want to
> miss any potential potholes.  All feedback is
> appreciated.
> Thanks!
> 
>
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