Hi Howard, i just did some testing recently too using the network (instead of 
SAN).  it was fairly easy to set up once the correct permissions were set in 
vCenter.  Our esx hosts are connected with 10GB and the vm guests are at 1GB, 
so the backups using the API was much faster.  i was able to restore full vmdks 
from the backup and found that the nb client is required if you want to restore 
files back to the original vm guest.  our paint point is the config 
requirements to get this done to each vm guest.  for example, you need to 
enable change block tracking on each vm, change backups using time stamps 
instead of archive bits, and making the UUID based quiescing for windows 2008 
servers (theres a symantec article on this).

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