We are about to deploy VMware to a remote location where we
will convert 4 or 5 physical windows hosts into a number of VM machines which
will then reside on one physical client.
I have done some reading and it appears that NBU best
practice calls for a VM proxy server to handle the backing up of the VMDK’s
of the VM machines. However, presenting shared storage between our
NetBackup environment and this remote location is not an option.
What is the best way for us to back up these VM’s through
NetBackup (6.5.4) other than installing a standard NBU client on them all
which, in our minds, would do away with many of the advantages of running
VMware in the first place ?
We have available enterprise client licenses for the VMware
host (physical box) and our master server is currently backing up a number of Microsoft
HyperV hosts which I believe uses some of the same snapshot technology that the
VM machines will need to use.
Thanks in advance,
Mark Glazerman
Enterprise Storage Administrator
Spartech Corporation
Desk: 314-889-8282
Fax: 314-854-8282
Cell: 618-520-3401
mark.glazerman AT spartech DOT com
http://www.spartech.com
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