What is the best backup solution for VMware Infrastructure system that hosts a wide variety of VMs?

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Published on 2011-02-23T06:21:40Z Indexed on 2011/02/23 7:27 UTC
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In a situation where you are running:

  • VMware Infrastructure 4.x with multiple hosts
  • Over 150 VMs with a wide variety of operating systems (Linux in a half dozen distros, Solaris, every MS version, etc.) in multiple languages with almost every mix of installed software (luckily, no Exchange mail servers)
  • Using an EMC fiber channel SAN
  • The VWs that need need to be backed up use about 2 terabytes of data (total)
  • The goal is to keep backups for about 3-months

At this rough scale, what backup solutions have worked well for you? And, as an add-on question, did any of them have de-duplication that you thought was effective and useful?

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