Backups of View templates, etc.

[admin]

Hey All,

What products are people using for backups for View?  Just the same products used for server virtualization?

I am really interested in investigating API-integrated backups that can lift files directly from the data store.

For View, I am mostly interested in backing up the parent VM's/templates, and a few .ISO's kept on the data store.

Our server virtualization environment is still using traditional agent-style backups.

If there are any *great* products out there that people are using, let me know.

Thanks,
Drew

[chaz112182]

my experience with avamar has been very positive. its expensive though.

avamar is "vmware aware" and supports both agentless and agent based backups. For agentless backups it takes a full backup of the .vmdk and then thereafter is backups only the deltas.

[chaz112182]

also shouldnt the replicas be backed up as well??

[admin]

Thanks, I'll look into that one.  It seems like there are tons of third party products out there, it is challenging to find the best of breed.

I have a buddy who uses Comm Vault.   I am also looking into Symantec Netbackup VMprotection, and today I found out about VMware Data Recovery.

I don't think the replicas need to be backed up.  If memory serves, they are dynamically re-created by the connection server when clones are provisioned to a LUN without a replica present.

Drew