There are several factors here that will help determine what technologies you 
should look at:

1.  Do you need to do file level restores of this VM that has these huge number 
of files?
2.  About how many and what kind of files (.avi, .mkv, .jpg, etc.) comprise the 
"huge number of files"?
3.  What is the retention requirements for the VM?  Hours, days, weeks, years?
4.  How does the VM see the disks:  via Diskstore or RDM?

Wayne's comment of using the Snap Mirror/Snap Vault is good if you have a 
second NetApp to snap the data to.  This is good for short term data protection 
especially if that second NetApp is at a offsite facility.

NetBackup has a feature that allow you to backup the VMDK file itself (which is 
very efficient for data streaming) but will actually index the files inside the 
VMDK allowing for file level restores or restoring the entire VMDK.

If you can respond to the questions above, I bet we can come up with options 
for you.

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