Interesting. How is that different from just taking regular snapshots? Don't you still have to quiesce the VMs before taking the flexclone? How many VMs per volume do you have?
-Adam On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandol...@esri.com> wrote: > We use CommVault + NetApp + FlexClone (Intellisnap). As long as you > schedule things so you only end up taking one FlexClone per volume per > cycle, it works quite well. The time to roll back the VMware level > snapshots becomes very small. > > Ray > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 06:20:18AM -0700, Jason Barbier wrote: > > 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 >
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