Just a quick note here on business justification. It is a pretty easy sell here that we need the ability to recover a fully functional VM in less than an hour. We can't quite get this done with a traditional backup and restore methodology, but we can do it with the Enterprise Client. The other alternative is san based snapshots, which isn't cheap. So our justification looks something like:
Standard Clients + 20% Snapshot Space vs. Enterprise Client Add to that the decreased backup times of your VMs, and the ability to keep images on tape longer than snapshots and this justification was fairly easy. -Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 5:49 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by VeritasNetbackup. Capacity too expensive, but I wish we could :-(( -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of mitch808 Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:50 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup. No no! It's an Enterprise Client based on a Tier level per physically populated socket Tier 1 =1CPU Tier 2 = 2-3 CPU Tier 3 = 4 etc. (Something like that at least...) Again, populated sockets only! Core counts make no difference. This covers UNLIMITED guests. You can carve out any number of vCPU's you want. The Enterprise client for the physical host covers it all! If they are charging for physical hosts and virtual guests, they are ripping you off and doing it wrong. Again, look into Capacity licensing, and it could be simpler for you. Especially since you use quad CPU boxes. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by mnab...@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 This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu