We use ESX Ranger to Hotbackup our Production ESX boxes to single
storage server - then backup that server (and the images) to tape.
Andrew
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up a VMware ESX environment - how many
license will I need
We back up just the VMs, using their native client - RedHat or Windows.
We looked at backing up the ESX server, using the RedHat client, but
decided it was easier to rebuild it.
For licences you need one for each *type* of OS you run on any item of
hardware. So if you want to back up the ESX server, you need a RedHat
Client & licence. If you run RedHat VMs, you don't need any more
licences, they can just use the one you got. You then need a licence
for
each 'guest' OS, but as you say you have Windows licences. They will
cover you no matter how many Windows VMs you run on the ESX server.
So it sounds that if you choose to backup the ESX server, you must buy a
RedHat client licence. If you don't back it up, you have already have
all
the licences you need.
William D L Brown
"King, Cheryl" <cheryl.king AT intrado DOT com>
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[Veritas-bu] Backing up a VMware ESX environment - how many license will
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We have implemented a VMware ESX environment which goes into production
in
about 2 weeks. Currently there are two Windows servers, that are
clustered, moving to the new enviroment. I have a Veritas NBU client on
each one and am backing up ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES.
The new environment will be 2 ESX servers and 2 Virtual Machines (VMs)
to
start, adding 2 more ESX servers and 2 or 3 more VMs very soon. I have
read the Vmware ESX Server Backup Planning white paper. I know we need
to
backup up the 2 virtual machines because the users of this application
require file-level restores on a regular basis. We'll just use the 2
existing licenses for that.
Our old DR plan was fix the hardware, install the OS, restore the data
using NBU. Now that the environment is more complex, that won't work.
BTW
this isn't a highly visible application. It's data used to generate
various reports for our customers. There are only a few internal users,
so cost is an issue.
I'm wondering how other people are doing backups and recovery in an
Vmware
ESX environment. I understand that we could back up the Service
Consoles
and Virtual Disk Files but would that require one more NBU license per
ESX
server? The data will now reside on a SAN, D280. We don't have the
Santricity snapshot option or whatever it's called on the D280. I need
to
look into that and get a cost, but we'd still need to back up the
Service
Consoles, right? Please share what you're doing in this environment.
Thanks.
We have Vertias Enterprise 5.1MP2 running on Solaris 8 Master and Media
server
Cheryl King
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