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>>I also think you might be making some unfair assumptions about snapshots.

How may I ask am I making an unfair assumption about snapshots when they aren't working now? Why should I engage in yet another 3rd party  product and spend more money when such a product is going to rely on the snapshot process, which I've made clear isn't working on the larger VMs?

From a bare metal perspective it was easy to perform in-state imaging and back-ups of the bare metal OS that could be restored in minutes. From what I'm hearing this is obsolete with VMware, but I've yet to have a concise answer as to what this process is other than references to buy other back-up products that then reference the snap-shot process which is broken on our larger VM's.

We spent $150,000 for our current back-up system, which works exceedingly well for file level restore via guest agents. It works very well for smaller VMs. It does not work with terrabyte size VMs because the VMware snapshot process fails. Which means I need to resort to SAN level products and justifying another huge expense when a $300 copy of Paragon performed the task perfectly on bare metal.

See my frustration?

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