We use Unitrends Virtual Backup as well; it has been around for quite a while since it was previously known as PHD Virtual Backup before Unitrends acquired them. It snapshots and backs up individual VM's virtual disks at a time (with de-duplication and compression) so we don't have the issue of trying to quiesce the entire datastore at once. If I recall correctly there are agents to handle cases like SQL or Exchange as well. It also supports replicating completed backups to a secondary (perhaps offsite) destination. We've been very happy with it overall.
- Dave > On Oct 27, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Adam Levin <levi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
