Hi everyone,
I have 3 ESX 3.5 hosts connected to 2 Lefthand SAN's. Then I also have an instance of ESX 3i running off of DAS (but it can also see the SAN's). All of our critical servers are running off of the LeftHand's LUN's.
I'm wondering if it's OK to put vRanger as a Windows 2003 guest running off of the ESX 3i host. The guest will run off of DAS (in case both SAN's have an issue). Does this still fall within backup best practices? Or should I put vRanger on a physical server?
Thanks everyone!
I believe that Vizioncore's best practice, says to put vRanger on a physical Windows host. It works in a VM, but when you are doing backups, you will have a lot of network load on the ESX host that is running the vRanger VM.
-Jon-
VMware Certified Professional
I believe that Vizioncore's best practice, says to put vRanger on a physical Windows host. It works in a VM, but when you are doing backups, you will have a lot of network load on the ESX host that is running the vRanger VM.
-Jon-
VMware Certified Professional
Understood thanks!
I run Ranger on my VCenter server (which is a low-end Dell PowerEdge). They cohabitate nicely and seem to be a very happy couple.
I agree with Crazex,
Putting it on its own physical server is the safest bet and will not beat up your performance of a VM or Host.
Hope that helped. ![]()
I have put my vranger inside a VM.
it works fine for me
mark
Hello,
I put vRanger on a physical host, that is my backup tape server and VC server. THat works very well for me. I would not add your tape server to ESX as a VM unless you are using NPIV to access the tape device. Otherwise tape issues often force you to reboot your ESX server.
As for performance, that varies depending on quite a lot of things. Current Disk IO usage, network IO usage, spindles per LUN, etc. When you do your backups and required performance for the backup. How you do your backups are also just as important.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
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