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Scheduling VMware vproxy backups
Hello Experts
we are running VMs on datastores with approximately 5% spare disk space. A 2TB datastore has left 100GB free space left.
Now we are considering the use of image-based-backups using NetWorker VMWare Integration.
Our ESX-Admin is raising the question if the snapshots of multiple machines on the same datastore will not fill up the datastore and how to avoid this.
My understanding is, that NetWorker protection groups have no means of limiting backups on the same datastore, have they?
Is there any best practice on how to selectively build protection groups in a way to run only one backup at a datastore at any given point-in-time?
Are there any other ideas and known best pactises to work around this issue?
Thanks and Regards
Christian
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August 19th, 2019 07:00
Of course it is possible that even temp snapshots will fill a datastore - no matter how they are created.
However, like for the 'normal' backups clients, you can create groups and workflows and select the VMs like clients. The principle is pretty similar - only the way to select them is a bit different. And in your case, it would make sense to organize them 'per datastore'.
crazyrov
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August 19th, 2019 08:00
Not sure if you have considered this already but you would need room on your datastore to deploy the vProxy hosts as well. As @bingo.1 mentioned, group the VM's that belong to one Data store to one workflow and keep the parallelism as minimum as you would want it to be.