At a previous employer we used Avamar for this and I recall it working well. I didn't operate it myself, but restores and clones I requested from backups always came out just as expected.
I believe the product is now owned by EMC. -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860) > On Oct 27, 2015, at 6:14 AM, Adam Levin <levi...@gmail.com> 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
