Hi
I have used 7.0.1 with vSphere 4.1, using a SAN MEdia Server, writing to
disk and tape, and it seems good!

The only problems I have is the price!!!!!! Its WAYYYYYY expensive :-(((
But we cant buy it !!! Symantec dont seem to be offering us good pricing
:-(

Simon 

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas
Netbackup.

Well I know with 7.x you can now use the vstorage API. I'm just
scratching the surface on this myself and plan on moving to this method
once I upgrade to 7.1. From what I have gathered so far:

1) You deploy a "vmware backup host" which is basically just a window
machine with an enterprise client license. (I think if you have a
windows media server this can be piggy-backed onto an existing media
server)
2) From there the backup host communicates with the ESX servers directly
and integrates with the snapshot capabilities and pulls the data
directly from the ESX servers. You no longer need clients in the VM
guests. (if you were going that route before)
3) This provides granular file restore for windows and linux clients.
(linux as of 7.1) Still no granular file restore from solaris from what
I have gathered.

I've heard mixed results from people using this but overall it seems
orders of magnitude better than the older VCB method. If your ESX
datastores are on SAN there are some even better methods of backing of
your vmware environments. Unfortunately we are on NAS at my current
shop.

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