VSM file level restore FLR

Right, I understand the way the EQL's works now, and as you said, "if you mount the snapshot"....but why can't VSM do that?  That is the real question.  We love the Equallogics, VSM 3.5 with vCenter is almost there as a cool plugin.  Just needs a bit more cowbell.

What we need to push as end users is... more features (to make our lives easier) and make the computer do most of the work; again this is more of a discussion item, high level, can the programmers make a process that would mount the VDMK for us dedicated Equallogic users?  :emotion-5:

As VSM is an appliance, mount/hot add the VDMK to it, with magic programming, we the end user are presented with a "file explorer" like interface and we can pick the file(s)/folder to restore.

Maybe enough of us push for such a feature (and tell our Dell reps)?  Is there a need for such enhancement amongst us all?  Or do we like manually mounting VDMK's into another VM?

Someday I'd like to give our admins access to an FLR feature via vCenter, but not all the VSM areas (restore/clone).

To not have to use Vmware VDP (crap system by the way), Veeam, PHD Virtual or other backup solutions would be sweet.

Thanks.

If they can do it (Veeam/HP)  www.veeam.com/san-snapshots-explorer.html

so can Dell/Equallogic.  Agree?

Got an email today, looks like Veeam has made this part of their overall solution.  Eitherway...Equallogic, catch up.

http://img.veeam.com/screenshots/big_screen/san_snapshots_scheme.png

"When I learned that Veeam, working in conjunction with HP, was releasing new restore capabilities for SAN snapshots, it was as if Veeam understood our situation and designed a solution especially for us.

Jason Kaduk, Information Systems Specialist, Vallejo Sanitation & Flood Control District"

You can perform SAN based backups with Veeam and EqualLogic. You need enterprise plus Veeam licensing though.

You will need, ideally 2x NIC connected to the iSCSI network. Make sure you have the latest HIT installed. Configure Veeam to use SAN snapshots.

I have got 196MB/s recently with a customer. That's backup 226GB, verify and file system index in 26 minutes and not a drop of traffic over the management of VM network :)

Austin