Adam Have you looked at Tivoli (Now Spectrum Protect)? My environment isn't as large as yours, but from what I've heard it scales well. We use it to backup both Linux and Windows VMs and physical hosts.
The add-on Tivoli Data Protector for Virtual Environments is the magic smoke that adds features like block-level incremental backups, instant restores and other goodies. https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/mobile/#!/SS8TDQ_7.1.3/ve.user/c_ve_overview_tsmnode.html Scaling out involving multiple data movers per vCenter is possible, and there are many ways to tune and filter how they operate, such as max number of simultaneous jobs per datastore, per esxi host, etc. Let me know if you have any questions- I'll try to answer them or can put you in touch with a great Tivoli community where you can find folks with larger installations, more answers etc. Mike On Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 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 > > >
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