Vmware monitoring and backup

[geejaybee]

Hi,

My company has decied to replace our existing Windows servers (Dell) with new servers running the latest VMware product with vmotion. There will be 2 server "clusters" at 3 or 4 sites. As you will note from the questions that decision has been taken well in advance of any training

Currently we monitor the physical serverswith Dell IT Assistant and use backup exec for Windows file-level backups.

Does Dell ITA have the capability to monitor and alert on VMware servers?

Also what type of backup capabilities are native to vsphere.

[idle-jam]

Hi,

With VMotion built in, then you will have the many options of host and guest level monitoring via VMware Center. You could go to dell website and search for ESX with open manage embedded. Once installed you have open manage preinstall and preconfigure

Depending on the version of VMware vSphere that you have purchased, it might come bundled with VMware Data Recovery that allows virtual machine backup over network in a dedup manner and allows full image or file level restoration.

If you would like to keep the symantec backup exec, there is an agent for vmware virtual infrastructure where 1 agent = host. it will use vmware vstorage api for data recovery (vadp) to perform backup. however if you would need to do a database consistent backup agent for sql or exchange and etc is still the preferred method.

lastly there are 3rd party tools like quest's vranger and veeam's backup that are both very good too.

iDLE-jAM | VCP 2, VCP 3 & VCP 4

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[ChrisDearden]

Had a quick hunt and as long as you install the version of ESXi from Dell that has their agents slipstreamed into it , then you should be able to monitor it with ITA.

you can continue to back your windows machines up as you did before , but you may find that you want to leverage VM level backs for the abiliaty to restore a while VM.

@chrisdearden