Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-06-02 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup. No no! It's an Enterprise Client based on a Tier level per physically populated socket Tier 1 =1CPU Tier 2 = 2-3 CPU Tier 3 = 4 etc. (Something like that at least...) Again, populated sockets only! Core counts make no difference.

[Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-06-01 Thread mitch808
No no! It's an Enterprise Client based on a Tier level per physically populated socket Tier 1 =1CPU Tier 2 = 2-3 CPU Tier 3 = 4 etc. (Something like that at least...) Again, populated sockets only! Core counts make no difference. This covers UNLIMITED guests. You can carve out any number of v

[Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-05-28 Thread mitch808
You can also look into capacity licensing too. This way, you ignore all the client agents and App & DB packs and tiers, etc... While capacity licensing is not cheap, the more you virtualize, the more you move into multi-socket boxes, the choice makes sense. As an example a quad-CPU box and a

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-05-27 Thread John Meyers
808 > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:49 AM > To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas > Netbackup. > > Symantec changed the licensing where if you had 10 Windows guests and 10 > Linux guests, you USED to need two En

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-05-26 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
bill ! Simon -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of mitch808 Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:49 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Ve

[Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-05-25 Thread mitch808
Symantec changed the licensing where if you had 10 Windows guests and 10 Linux guests, you USED to need two Enterprise Client licenses. This was a 6.5 limitation. In NBU 7, no longer. Way to go, finally something right in licensing. It's an Enterprise Client per PHYSICAL host, regardless of

[Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-05-25 Thread rhugga
What piece is expensive? yea I agree their software is way overpriced and I'm not impressed with how they license the sub components and their support is way overpriced compared to the response times and quality of support. I actually have a long term plan to move to Commvault. I've noticed a co

Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-05-25 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of rhugga Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 3:59 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup. Well I know with 7.x you can

[Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-05-25 Thread rhugga
Well I know with 7.x you can now use the vstorage API. I'm just scratching the surface on this myself and plan on moving to this method once I upgrade to 7.1. From what I have gathered so far: 1) You deploy a "vmware backup host" which is basically just a window machine with an enterprise clien

[Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

2011-05-25 Thread Harpreet SINGH
Dear All, We are on Netbackup 7.0 on Redhat 5.4. We are looking a cost effective solution to do the ESXi 4.1 backup for my ESXI 4.1 developments servers. Please advise with your experience. With Warm Regards =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Harpreet Singh Chana Phone : (O) 6895 - 4326 Fax