-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 One more vote of confidence for NBU. It's been a while since I've used it, but it was most definitely The Awesome.
D On 10/29/2015 12:26 PM, Adam Levin wrote: > 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] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ 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/ > - -- I prefer to use encrypted mail. My public key fingerprint is FD6A 6990 F035 DE9E 3713 B4F1 661B 3AD6 D82A BBD0. You can download it at http://www.megacity.org/gpg_dballing.txt Learn how to encrypt your email with the E-Mail Self Defense Guide: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0 Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWMkkQAAoJEGYbOtbYKrvQi5wQAMa2r5RonQKCeUxcxeN/uGvg LgHoLOARXSdm3a6/Leg/WwExTs9e4LG/3ssM8MaPxHWPEm1MCTHkqv+YIHSqp1iy 4DVqhL5BcFIBXGoPTm/CxflbHnLwpjqizoh11p75l+VNyQai/q7OCNEMqWycIzHG NsX3NIlp+Z8ze+S+3RrXdRT5/JEP3sWa4cnvSuQwNc8KcyPrHHdScBUFOzD1ffdE gBZHm1lCT4JVscmeG+8Mx6J9K0LXLpZ5Zq4EgmV+leQR5JrU3c5YoOrvw306k2D0 xbYOwc18K7YgqiM/F3K9ZJyHK4YFknGmIrDiKQG46TcaH/bYeqdiWvAqy8Gk6NJX NMR9psZfMb3Mji/qSj8kfq8hednqKLy41w6gxuo09dVt1EnEm5vEjsG/Kr5/9guR 6QB3ENevXj2HQfxR+vu6vaDZPrCNdynTWj4e2ofhh9MgKQrDsWhW3B1LIyxphsUk wPMYPEWJv+w9dROzOUzap6ZP/oCXvv1M9RC2ji8/Y+10368rJLZT7cjx8VePVzuv WSqE9qcNMJ8AU+9+EYHJCUvR8ai6gbiO5kpU6/Beo2oiJXJRBCzo2vDA57qNE8HW g25cnE4+tONec/4q6YMU6xLo8xNlepgrH3Zp/vZ1xPF1rOIyZHpQTK7Gq/80dt5e H64PRVU3Pdb9fRIDlVx0 =l8Ae -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
