When on a NetApp, I've seen most people use the NetApp VMware connector for snapvaulting. I don't know how it operates at that scale, but I imagine it could scale out. You have 75 datastores... I just don't know what would be required to make it performant at that extreme.
The NetApp dude at our company is on vacation right now, but when he gets back, I can ask. --Matt On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Adam Levin <levi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, I've got a question about how you backup your VM environment? > > We're using vSphere 5.5 and NetApp NAS for datastores. We have about 75 > 8TB datastores, and about 2500 VMs. The VMs are not distributed evenly > because of service levels associated with the datastores. > > We're being told by various backup vendors that the main issue is the > number of VMs per datastore, because quiescing lots of VMs and then taking > a datastore snapshot can produce long wait times when rolling the qieusced > images back in to the running VM. > > Our VM team is telling us that there is no current tool to manage the > number of VMs per datastore, just the size of the datastores. > > So I'm curious what some common methods are for managing backups in a > large VM environment. Do you just use agents and backup from within the > VM? Do you bother doing app consistent backups of the VMs or just snapshot > the datastore and not worry about consistency? Have you found a product > that manages qiuescing and snapshots in a reasonable way? > > We've looked at NetBackup, Commvault and Veeam so far. > > Thanks, > -Adam > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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