Vstorage does not scale well at all.  We had it backing up around 1000 vm 
clients and crashed Vcenter everytime.




David Stanaway wrote:
> On 5/13/2010 4:05 PM, Victor Engle wrote:
> 
> > Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up
> > VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and
> > which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup
> > server is solaris.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Vic
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> I am waiting until we get our infrastructure to vSphere 4.0 and NBU 7 to
> do vStorage backups which seem to be da bomb digity. All the ducks just
> got lined up in a row for this just recently, but I'll still wait until
> June to make sure nothing comes out in the field from other people. 
> DataDomain's DDBoost just came out which is their new OST plugin which
> supports NBU 7. It also does some media server side de-duplication
> processing which I am hoping leads the way to global de-dupe and client
> side de-dupe.
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