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[Veritas-bu] Backing up VMWare - best practices
2005-05-24 15:11:26
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Then they are fibbing to you. What you need is a client for each VMWare
machine to back up the data. I worked with a Veritas SE to design our
VMWare backups, and we are going with an agent for each machine, as well as
a Win2k3 SAN Media Server (on an IBM HS40 Blade $$$) and 5 SSO licenses to
suck down all of the VMWare dsk files from our EMC SAN straight to tape.
But you still need the VMWare licenses to back up changes and perform
incrementals. As far as we know, VMWare machines cannot be backed up live,
and are designing some scripting possibilities to work with that. And then
management said no way to the SAN backups, so we're doing it just with
clients. We just did a full recovery of a VMWare system last night, and it
worked quite well. :)
Jennifer
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From: Conner, Mike [mailto:MConner AT imb DOT org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:27 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up VMWare - best practices
Just curious if anyone is backing up any instances of VMWare clients. We
have been told by Veritas that we can purchase one agent to backup all
instances. VMWare is saying that we will need a client for each virtual
machine. Anyone with any experience here have any info?
Thanks
Mike
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color=#000080 size=2>Then they are fibbing to you. What you need is a
client for each VMWare machine to back up the data. I worked with a
Veritas SE to design our VMWare backups, and we are going with an agent for
each
machine, as well as a Win2k3 SAN Media Server (on an IBM HS40 Blade $$$) and 5
SSO licenses to suck down all of the VMWare dsk files from our EMC SAN straight
to tape. But you still need the VMWare licenses to back up changes and
perform incrementals. As far as we know, VMWare machines cannot be backed
up live, and are designing some scripting possibilities to work with
that.
And then management said no way to the SAN backups, so we're doing it just with
clients. We just did a full recovery of a VMWare system last night, and
it
worked quite well. :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#000080 size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=106520519-24052005><FONT face="Trebuchet
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Conner, Mike [mailto:MConner AT imb DOT
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<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:27 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Veritas-bu]
Backing up
VMWare - best practices<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Just curious if anyone is backing
up
any instances of VMWare clients. We have been told by Veritas that we can
purchase one agent to backup all instances. VMWare is saying that we will
need a client for each virtual machine. Anyone with any experience here
have any info?</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks</SPAN></FONT></P>
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