In regard to: [Networker] networker server virtualisation, helenjay said...:

Has anybody any experience in virtualising their networker server?  My
boss is giving it serious thought, however i'm not quite convinced.  I
know the idea is to share the resources but at the end of the day you're
still sharing and the networker server is pretty demanding.  Anybody any
thoughts/experience?

I would argue strenuously against virtualizing a backup server.

IF you can virtualize and still provide enough I/O bandwidth to perform
your backups and recoveries in a suitable window, I would be very
surprised.  Let's assume for a minute you can, though.

Even if your virtualized backup server has enough I/O, though, you're
still potentially making a true disaster recovery situation much more
complicated, if not potentially impossible.

Tim
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