EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on
01/21/2010 11:10:21 PM:
> We're using NW 7.5.1 and backing up about 200 VM's... (300 more to come
> this month).
>
> We don't have much data under each VM and we've gone sans VCB and are
very
> happy with it.
>
> Buy a license for each VMWare ESX server as a virtual client connection,
> install client under every VM, and dump them into a few groups... We're
> only doing full's once a month, and have not experienced complaints. We
> tried to group the VMWare clients by application so they are spread more
> evenly across the farm.
I'm confused. I install the NW client into every VM, and back up each VM
as if it was a physical client. Haven't had any problems. Then again, I've
never had to do a full bare-metal recovery yet, either.
Granted, I've only got maybe 60 VMs total, so not using VCB is manageable
(for me). But why would I need a virtual client connection for all 10 ESX
hosts, and what capability does that give me, that I do not have now?
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