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Rick_Kare
Level 3
9 years ago

CAS sever VMWare backup jobs

I have a central admin server and 2 media servers can each server be configured to run a set of VM's from the same Vcenter Server or do the other 2 have to wait for 1 to complete?

 

2014
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
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  • Rick_Kare's avatar
    Rick_Kare
    9 years ago

     

    I think this was licensing issue, as I placed the licenses on the CAS server defined a couple of test jobs and tried to run it; The CAS server started fine and my DMZ media server, sat waiting. It finally error'd out that it was not licensed for the operation.

    Added a couple of the licenses to the DMZ server and both ran concurrant. FYI. Each media server is handling it own Datastore so contention should not be an issue.

    Thanks for the responses.

  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    Moderator
    9 years ago
    You can run simultaneous jobs on the same vCenter server, but you would probably face contention problems and the overall backup time may be more than if you run the jobs sequentially
  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    Moderator
    9 years ago

    Might be better to have 1 server run multiple jobs, preferably with VMs on different datastores to prevent multiple snaps of 1 datastore.

    You could use the other server as in a DR-type scenario where you replicate backups too if needed.

    Thanks!

  • Rick_Kare's avatar
    Rick_Kare
    Level 3
    9 years ago

     

    I think this was licensing issue, as I placed the licenses on the CAS server defined a couple of test jobs and tried to run it; The CAS server started fine and my DMZ media server, sat waiting. It finally error'd out that it was not licensed for the operation.

    Added a couple of the licenses to the DMZ server and both ran concurrant. FYI. Each media server is handling it own Datastore so contention should not be an issue.

    Thanks for the responses.