VMWare Consolidated Backup trial

[jhoge]

Hi,

I just got off the phone with a VMWare tech who seemed to say that there was no way to download a 30 day trial of VCB. Is this true? It seems crazy to not allow people to test their backup strategy in the eval phase. I wouldn't want to go out and spend a lot of money on new hardware and software if I wasn't sure the backup would work.

John

[a_p_]

John,

since you are talking about planning the backup strategy with VCB, make sure you read the release notes of ESX(i) 4.1.

from http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx41_vc41_rel_notes.html

VMware Consolidated Backup. VMware has extended the end of availability timeline for VCB and added VCB support for vSphere 4.1. VMware will continue to support VCB 1.5 Update 2 for vSphere 4.1 and its subsequent update and patch releases through the end of their lifecycles. Support is extended in accordance with the VMware support policy for the VMware Infrastructure 3 platform. New major or minor versions of the vSphere platform beyond vSphere 4.1 will not be supported with VCB.

André

[AndreTheGiant]

VCB is under vSphere 4.0 downloads.

You must ask for a trial of vSphere (serial are the same from 4.0 and 4.1), then you can enter in the download area.

But, yes... VCB his near his end of life.

Under downloads, you can also try VDR.

Andre