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viper77
Level 2
10 years ago

What exactly is included in Backup Exec V-Ray Edition 2014?

Hello all I've read so many technical articels, blogs, white papers about the licensing from BE V-Ray 2014 but my confusion grows and grows... Even a sales employee from Symantec has given me i...
2014
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Licensing
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Virtualization
  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    10 years ago
    When you backup the entire VM with BE, you can restore individual files/folders from this same backup. This is GRT. You can also restore individual Exchange items from this backup. You don't need to redirect the files or Exchange items during a restore. They can go back to the original location. I don't know why you need another product to backup the entire VM. This is the purpose of having the BE VMWare agent license. An unlimited Agent for Application and Databases licenses is included in the V-Ray edition, but you need to buy them if you only buy the VMWare agent license. The VMWare agent license only includes unlimited AWS/RALUS license. If your customer is on a current maintenance contract then he could have upgraded all the licenses for free and only need to buy the VMWare agent licenses. He would have saved a bundle. I hope your customer is not looking at this forum
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viper77
Level 2
10 years ago

Hello pkh

Thank you so much for your information.
You are the first person who gives helpful information to me.

It's a different story, why we use another product to backup the entire VM.
I will handle that internal at our company, also the situation with our customer.

The main facts for me are:
With the VMware agent I'am allowed to install unlimited RAWS and RALUS on the virtual infrastructure.
With the Agent for Application and Databases I'm allowed to backup as many Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL Servers I like.

My final question is:
The Backup Server itself is physical (Windows Server 2012 R2). Do I need to buy a AWS to backup the server itself or is it included?

Thanks for your answer.

Best regards
Pascal

 

Also I found the following information on a whitepaper:

Virtual Machine Backup Methods
When protecting VMware or Hyper-V virtual environments with Backup Exec 2012 SP2 and the Agent for 
VMware and Hyper-V, users have the option to protect virtual machines using any of the following methods:
• Image-level backups - capture entire snapshots of virtual machines associated with the virtual host, 
which enables full virtual machine recovery and granular file and folder recovery.
• Agent-assisted image-level backups (recommended) - a form of image-level backup that includes 
additional application protection and recovery functionality, including full application recovery and 
granular application recovery. This is enabled by the Agent for Windows being installed into the virtual 
machine; an agent-assisted backup is not an agent-based backup—backups are still image-level.
• Agent-based backups – legacy backup method; backups are captured by a local agent installed to a 
virtual machine; essentially treats the virtual machine as if it were a standalone physical server. This is 
recommended only in situations where image-level backups are not optimal, such as when protecting 
virtual machines configured with Physical Compatibility Mode RDM disks