Suggestions for Single ESX4 VM backups

[clwoody]

Hi All.

I am looking for some advice or suggestions regarding the many options i seem to have to backup my VM's on a standalone ESX4 host.

I am about to upgrade one our small branch offices which is currently running 2 standalone ESX servers (ESX 3.5 Foundation) to vSphere Standard.

I am planning to buy new server hardware and run one ESX4 server using local disk for storage - the office has about 7 VM's doing nothing major. I will reuse the old servers (1 x DL380G5 + G4). One will be reused for standby ESX box, the other possible some kind of backup software.

I guess i would like to have the VM's on the new ESX server backed up to disk initially then shifted off to tape. We currently use Veeam and Commvault in our Main office but we have the benefit of shared storage there.

What are other people doing for single host VM backups?

I look forward to some advice.

Thanks,

Colin.

[AntonVZhbankov]

Veeam Backup is the best solution for VM backups IMHO. And then you can put files from Veeam to tape - this is how I do backups.

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[clwoody]

Hi Anton,

Thanks for the reply. I already use Veeam in our main office and think its great so thats an option.

Can Veeam write to tape? i thought that was only disk copies?

Thanks.

[AntonVZhbankov]

>Can Veeam write to tape? i thought that was only disk copies?

You're right, disk copies only. HP DataProtector writes them to tape.

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