We use Veeam 5.0 right now and have been pretty happy with it. The restoring of Exchange with the virtual lab has been a little pain point for us, so we ended up getting ontrack, and simply mount the edb and pull out what we need the few times that was required.
We run Veeam as a virtual appliance in our vm cluster and output to a Windows SMB share (we had this as a SAN and found better performance going over SMB instead of iSCSI). We have de-duplication on the Veeam side set to optimal, and we have backup to LAN Target. There are ways to set it up to do incremental, reverse incrementals etc . it took us a few tries to get it right but now we backup about 2TB of data in a few hours , and then on Sundays the backups merge. We keep 15 backup points, and so far this has worked well. We also do replication to a backup SATA SAN every 4 hours, and this works okay as well. It took some tweaking too because the backups would run @ the same time as replication so we would get skipped vms due to snapshot in place. There isnt an option to skip replication jobs, for example every 4hours but not from 8pm-12am . so our normal backups could run, but we have it all timed out nicely now. One last thing, Veeam 5.0 had some issues with Vcenter 5, and ESXi5 when formatted out to VMFS-5 volumes. I think 6 just came out, or is coming out which is supposed to address this issue, but we run VC5 and 6 ESXi5 boxes now on VMFS-3 still and things are working fine. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Veeam The backup server is a physical box with tons of SATA storage.and VEEAM is running there. It grabs the images of the dozen or so virtual servers from the iSCSI SAN and then we backup the backup server to LTO-5 tape for offsite storage on a weekly basis. We're hoping for MGMT buy-in to do offsite replication sometime next year but the data pipe isn't sufficient we're stuck with tape for now. Roger Wright ___ If the universe is constantly expanding, how come I can't find a parking space? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Harry Singh <hbo...@gmail.com> wrote: Just purchased VEEAM. Roger - do you have veeam on a physical or virtual machine? are you using Direct SAN Access with iSCSI or are you using FC? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Roger Wright <rhw...@gmail.com> wrote: We switched from vRanger to Veeam about 3 months back due to constant issues with vRanger. Veeam is working well for us, a bit more intuitive and faster. I can't comment regarding how it works with Exchange 2010 since we're still on Exchange 2003. Roger Wright ___ If the universe is constantly expanding, how come I can't find a parking space? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Heaton <jhea...@dfg.ca.gov> wrote: Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
