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October 15th, 2010 01:00
VMWare Image backup without vCenter?
Because an Avamar grid support only one vCenter server and probably the next version of Avamar still has this limitation I am curious if it's possible to make VMWare image level backups based on the vstorage api without the need of vCenter. As far as i know veeam and vRanger can do that without vCenter and it would be nice if Avamar is also capable of doiing image level backups without vCenter. If so the support limitation of only one vCenter server isn't a big issue anymore.
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Hormigo
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October 18th, 2010 08:00
Hi,
I think with not.
You need vCenter.
OscarG1
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October 27th, 2010 10:00
Yes it is possible.
Before Avamar did the integration with the vcenter, the way to do backups to the images was doing a script using vcbmounter for backup and vcbrestore to perform the restore...
you need to have some space to do the backup, at leat of the size of the bigger image that you will backup.
1. create space to perform backup
2. create a script using vcbmounter to performe the image snapshot
3. execute an avamar backup with prescript and locate the one you create in step 2
4. create a post script to delete data from the staging space you create in step 1
you can read this in the administration manual where image backups for vmware 3.5 and 3...
I know in vsphere it is "not supported" vcbmounter, but it is still capable to use it
Oscar
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October 28th, 2010 01:00
Oscar,
Thanks for the answer.
I was hoping the image backup based on the v-storage API was possible but it is good to know your solution is working also. Unfortunately the deduplication rate isn’t that good with vcb, but ok it is a solution. With Avamar 6.1 muliple vCenters are supported. (planned mid 2011) and that’s also oke for me to backup multiple VMware servers of different customers.
Thanks
Hans