Harpreet SINGH wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> We are going to implement backup's for  VMWare ESX and VMWare ESXi. As
> of now we have only experience on Solaris/Linux backup only.
> 
> Please help to share your experience in.
> 
> 1. Implementation
> 2. Day to day task
> 3. backup and re-store procedure
> 4. Trouble shooting and more..........
> 

I can't comment on your specific version, we run 6.0MP4, but we use a three 
pronged approach.

1.  We backup the ESX hosts themselves with the standard NetBackup client.

2.  We backup VM Guests as if they were on physical hardware, that is by using 
the appropriate NetBackup client.

3.  We also backup the VM Guest vmdk files using vmbk 
(http://www.vmts.net/vmbk3.htm) - which is an excellent freeware backup tool.

We've so far found this to be extremely robust (though I've rarely been called 
upon to restore anything via methods 1 or 3) and effective.

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