Hey Frances/Alec,
But the virtual server licensing doesn't address resource contention
issues that happens with backups in a virtual environment? How are you
planning to get around that?
Thanks!
Joel
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Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [Networker] Avamar
Hey Joel,
That's the same plan the EMC sales force told me about -- but that means
you now have paid for
the AVAMAR solution and also have to pay for a NetWorker client license
for each one of your
guests. Hence I'm in agreement with Alec. As I need to expand the
licenses to cover my
guests, I'm going to be switching to the Virtual Server license model --
because I have to run
the NetWorker client on each guest anyway with the current EMC dedupe
product (so I can get a
off-site clone copy on tape per requirements).
Frank
On 7/1/09 10:13 AM, Joel Fisher wrote:
Hey Siobhan,
My thinking for the lack of tape out, is that I would just run one
backup a month to regular tape. That fits well with how we do it now.
Is that still feasible with avamar?
Thank you for your response.
Joel
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On
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Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [Networker] Avamar
It works
It's good for virtual environments
It has no tape out facility worth speaking about... so think about
your
retention periods.
Siobhan Ellis
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On
Behalf Of Joel Fisher
Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2009 6:54 AM
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Subject: [Networker] Avamar
Hey Guys,
We are getting ready to ink the deal on a big VMware environment, but
the outstanding issue is still... how do we back it all up.
To protect the VMDKs we are planning on doing snapshots and
replication
within our storage arrays. But the problem is that we have a
requirement to provide file level restore capability, and we don't
want
to spend hours of admin time mounting VMDK snapshots and restoring
individual files.
Conceptually, avamar seems like the "perfect" backup solution for a
VMware environment. Global dedup, minimize server resources used for
the backup, etc... But I've never used it, so can someone who has had
some hands on experience give me some insight on whether it really
works, and what the draw backs are. How well does it tie into
networker. We are currently 7.4.4(with lots of patches)
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
As far as scale goes... we will probably top out at 600-700 guests
factoring in some creep.
Thanks!
Joel
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