Adam,
I am a much smaller shop, but we really like Unitrends Virtual Backup.
It is like Veeam, was less expensive for us, and just plain works. I
have no idea how if it could handle your solution.
cheers,
ski
On 10/27/2015 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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