I am looking for peoples experience with backing up Virtual Servers in an ESX 3.5 U5, Virtual Center 2.5 U5 environment.
We have 8 ESX 3.5 servers in 2 clusters (6 in 1 and 2 in the other) and 1 Virtual Center 2.5 to manage the virtual environment of about 140 virtual servers.
Anyone out there backing up their VMs on ESX with CommVault? Currently we back everything up with iDAs in the VMs and we meet our backup windows, but it just is no longer efficient to do it that way.
I am particularly interested in doing this with Hot-Add mode where the VCB proxy runs in a virtual machine rather than a separate physical machine on the fiber SAN fabric, but I would like to hear from anyone doing this whether using Hot-Add, SAN or LAN modes.
We have 8 ESX 3.5 servers in 2 clusters (6 in 1 and 2 in the other) and 1 Virtual Center 2.5 to manage the virtual environment of about 140 virtual servers.
Anyone out there backing up their VMs on ESX with CommVault? Currently we back everything up with iDAs in the VMs and we meet our backup windows, but it just is no longer efficient to do it that way.
I am particularly interested in doing this with Hot-Add mode where the VCB proxy runs in a virtual machine rather than a separate physical machine on the fiber SAN fabric, but I would like to hear from anyone doing this whether using Hot-Add, SAN or LAN modes.
