Right now at $work we use a combination of Veeam weeklies, because Veeam takes a week to do all of our backups, ans ZFS snapshots for nightlies. Getting onto nextenta's SAN product with ZFS helped fix a lot of small issues we had around backups and SAN migration.
-- Jason Barbier | E: jab...@serversave.us GPG Key-ID: B5F75B47(http://kusuriya.devio.us/pubkey.asc) On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, at 06:14 AM, Adam Levin 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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