Thanks, Mike. We were a TSM shop until we switched to NBU 6 years ago. I don't think they're looking to go back, but there's no question it scales. It's probably the biggest, baddest backup system there is. :)
-Adam On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Michael Ryder <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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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