Vstorage does not scale well at all. We had it backing up around 1000 vm clients and crashed Vcenter everytime.
David Stanaway wrote: > On 5/13/2010 4:05 PM, Victor Engle wrote: > > > Just wondered if anyone could discuss the best options for backing up > > VMs running on ESX 3.5 and 4.0 systems? What are the pros and cons and > > which methods allow for file level restores for the VM. My backup > > server is solaris. > > > > Thanks, > > Vic > > _______________________________________________ > > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu > > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > > > > > > > I am waiting until we get our infrastructure to vSphere 4.0 and NBU 7 to > do vStorage backups which seem to be da bomb digity. All the ducks just > got lined up in a row for this just recently, but I'll still wait until > June to make sure nothing comes out in the field from other people. > DataDomain's DDBoost just came out which is their new OST plugin which > supports NBU 7. It also does some media server side de-duplication > processing which I am hoping leads the way to global de-dupe and client > side de-dupe. > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by josh.op...@salliemae.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
