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wb2
Contributor
Contributor

esxi 4.1 embedded and Backup Exec VMware agent

As I understand it if I have the Backup Exec VMware plugin/agent I can snapshot my virtual machines and have a fully packaged virtual machine completely backed up, similar to an image level backup, but it's all native to VMware.  Then it also gives me the ability to do file level backups at the same time.  Am I missing anything here.  Any problems with esxi 4.1 embedded in this setup?

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DSTAVERT
Immortal
Immortal

The current release of BE can use the VMware storage API to backup VMs. No limitations for ESXi.

-- David -- VMware Communities Moderator
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J1mbo
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

dstavert - any idea of the minimum (vmware) licensing level necessary for this?

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Dave_Mishchenko
Immortal
Immortal

It uses the vStorage API for Data Protection  so you need at least Essentials licensing (i.e. it won't work with a free license).

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