ESX 3.5 host and VM backup solution
can anyone speak to me about ESX 3.5 host and VM backups (VMs are mix of Linux and Windows), none of my VM infrastructure is on SAN storage (getting there some day), I have a few servers all with local storage, I know I have many options, I like what the commercial product Veeam has to say, note that I am willing to dedicate say an NFS/SMB SAN (NAS/DAS whatever) to the roel of backup, I will want to to 'live state' VM backups, I know if I had a more sophisticaed VM infrastructure (which I will be building into) the point of backing up your ESX 3.5 host becomes largely moot but I am thinking in this case I will treat each individual ESX host as a resource to backup, then backup VMs, I know this is a poor explanation of what I have and what I want, any thoughts appreciated on what others have done for backups with VMWare infrastructure in it's infancy
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HeingSkov: Are you sure you can't backup from local with VCB? My understanding was if you use a VM for the proxy (3.5 only) you can connect it to the local datastore that the VMDK files are on, and have that push off over the lan for backup.