back up the VMDK files with sysmantec backup exec

[Sevick]

hello all,

i am a new comer on this platform. i have some virtual machine on my environment and i bought symantec backup exec 2014. i use vmware vsphere 5 hypervisor and i try to backup the VMDK files but every time my backup fail and i don't know why. i want to know if it's necessary to have the enterprise license for VMware to do a backup to my virtual machine?

[brunofernandez1]

you do normally do backup the VM with snapshots and not the single VMDKs.

Your backup shurely failes because the VMDK files are in use by the esxi host.

have a look on this document:

http://static.symanteccloud.com/estore/resources/en/backup_exec_2014-protecting_vmware.pdf