Thanks Ski. We also recently spoke to a new, young vendor named Rubrik. It's an interesting product, but our company tends to avoid technology that's less than 5 years or so in the market (pah! boring! :) ).
-Adam On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Ski Kacoroski <kacoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> >> > -- > "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it > connected to the entire universe" John Muir > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, s...@lopsa.org, 206-501-9803 > or ski98033 on most IM services >
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