Hello,
As per the title we're running BUE2012 and VMware 5.1 - we were big fans of 2010 and it served us well until we upgraded to 2012.
Now, we're all over the place and I need suggestions on a working solution.
Currently we take full VMDK backups every night at 6PM of our 100 virtual machines. This amounts to something like 7 - 8TB and as I'm sure you can imagine this takes the best part of 7-8 hours.
We have a couple of servers, namely Exchange 2010 and a Windows 2008 file server backed up via agent but it's getting messy as we also run SRM and we've got snapshots all over the place.
How do you guys implement your backups and how do you schedule them? Do you take one full VMDK backup a week and then do you go full+incremental once a week also?
The confusing thing about BUE for us is there are two views. That is, the main view where I assume there are the servers added using the agent and the other view if you add a vCenter server. Double click into that server and you see the VMDK backups.
So, any advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks!