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Recommended disk for Veeam backup storage?
We are implementing a virtual infrastructure with Cisco UCS blade servers and an EMC VNX SAN. I would like to use Veeam as our backup software, but don't want to backup to the disk (EMC VNX SAN) where our virtual data resides to begin with. We currently have a second Dell SAN however it has only 1.4 TB of free space remaining and I'd like to retain 30 days of backups with compression and dedup so figure I'll need more.
Another SAN would be rather expensive just for holding backups so I'm wondering what others are using that may be redundant, reliable and highly recommended by those who have been doing this longer?
Another SAN would be rather expensive just for holding backups so I'm wondering what others are using that may be redundant, reliable and highly recommended by those who have been doing this longer?
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I will look at that as well as I'm trialing Veeam right now.
I do need to backup entire VMs, but mainly want to know what others are using for disk given we currently use Symantec to tape in our standalone server farm, but will need to backup to disk with Veeam or other VM vendor. I have a SAN with 2TB, but I have 2TB in my datastore now so would need to expand my existing SAN. Thus I'm wondering if that is the best scenario for disk (redundancy and reliability) or if there is soemthing others are using to backup to that is redundant but maybe not as expensive given this is disk solely for backups (though I understand the importance which is why I am looking for redundancy and reliability)
I do need to backup entire VMs, but mainly want to know what others are using for disk given we currently use Symantec to tape in our standalone server farm, but will need to backup to disk with Veeam or other VM vendor. I have a SAN with 2TB, but I have 2TB in my datastore now so would need to expand my existing SAN. Thus I'm wondering if that is the best scenario for disk (redundancy and reliability) or if there is soemthing others are using to backup to that is redundant but maybe not as expensive given this is disk solely for backups (though I understand the importance which is why I am looking for redundancy and reliability)
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Regarding your need to keep 30 days of backup, what is the current amount of data that you need to backup? Are you wanting to backup entire vm's or just files? For entire vm's then Veeam or vRanger Pro are great solutions. However, if you only need simple file backups, then the traditional Backup Exec has worked well for my environment. So in short, I use a mix of backup technology: vRanger Pro for remote snapshot for entire vm backup and Backup Exec for file level backup.