Vmware Backup Environment With Esxi - HP 12000 Design Manual

Other information: HP strongly recommends using the backup application to perform the copy
from VLS to physical tape. Single management console for all activities and better utilization of
physical media through object copy technology.
For many-to-one implementations especially, sizing the links, capacity required, and replication
windows required is quite complex. Please use the HP Backup Sizer.

VMWare Backup Environment with ESXi.

Company requirements: Entry-level VMWare environment. The company requires a single device
for backup consolidation across all VMWare machines and other SAN hosts in this infrastructure.
Wants deduplication to provide room for growth and longer retention online.
Solution: VLS9000 15 TB with deduplication (licensable feature) plus object copy to physical tape
for disaster recovery.
Caveats: VMWare-based backup with ESXi is over a network which limits the backup performance
to an absolute maximum of around 80 MB/sec. Each VMWare machine suffers loading at backup
time.
ISVs: HP Data Protector, Netbackup and TSM only at this time (VLS supported deduplication ISVs).
Device configuration highlights: Configure VLS with dedicated library for VMWare machines, do
not multiplex backups, use separate virtual drives for each VMWare machine and backup VMWare
machines in parallel.
Backup application configuration highlights: None – works as normal network backup, disk agents
and online backup agents on VMWare machines, media agents on separate backup server.
Figure 30 Using VLS with VMWare using Backup Agents
Recovery options: Using the separate server the restore can take place directly from the VLS device
over the network to the VMWare machines. If the data no longer exists on the VLS but has been
archived to tape then it can restored directly from tape to VMWare machines.
Solution advantages:
Uses traditional backup methods – well understood
Significantly improved data retention capability with deduplication
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