We use CommVault + NetApp + FlexClone (Intellisnap). As long as you schedule things so you only end up taking one FlexClone per volume per cycle, it works quite well. The time to roll back the VMware level snapshots becomes very small.
Ray On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 06:20:18AM -0700, Jason Barbier wrote: > Right now at $work we use a combination of Veeam weeklies, because Veeam > takes > a week to do all of our backups, ans ZFS snapshots for nightlies. Getting > onto nextenta's SAN product with ZFS helped fix a lot of small issues we had > around backups and SAN migration. > > -- > Jason Barbier | E: [email protected] > GPG Key-ID: B5F75B47(http://kusuriya.devio.us/pubkey.asc) > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, at 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 [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
