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 client license. (I think if you have a windows media server this can be piggy-backed onto an existing media server) 2) From there the backup host communicates with the ESX servers directly and integrates with the snapshot capabilities and pulls the data directly from the ESX servers. You no longer need clients in the VM guests. (if you were going that route before) 3) This provides granular file restore for windows and linux clients. (linux as of 7.1) Still no granular file restore from solaris from what I have gathered. I've heard mixed results from people using this but overall it seems orders of magnitude better than the older VCB method. If your ESX datastores are on SAN there are some even better methods of backing of your vmware environments. Unfortunately we are on NAS at my current shop. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by chuck.car...@gmail.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