Pricing for Netbackup & Hyper-V
I realize we'd have to get a quote, but does anyone know ballpark pricing for this?
We currently use Netbackup 6.5.4 and have licensing for clients with Exchange, SQL, and a few other odds and ends.
If we wanted to add the licensing to backup Hyper-V hosts (so that the VMs are backed up live and can be restored easily), what kindof costs are we looking at?
Like you said, you'd need to get a quote. MSRP would be about 15.5k if you want to stream staight to tape (i.e. it includes a media server license), about 7.7k if you're ok with sending it over the LAN.
That would include all licenses that allow you to do hyperV backups (backing up the virtual machines), and also the databases that might reside inside it.
Dont have a heart attack, that price unlocks the hyperV host, you can have unlimited guests.
That price is on the highest reward band in my region.
Please get a quote from your local partner.
DISCLAIMER
If what i said is wrong, sorry, if its too high sorry, if its too low, sorry, and if i've misread the licensing guide, sorry, and if you've misread what I meant, sorry one last time :)
Thats for Windows guests only (not sure if hyperV can do anything else like Vmware can).
If you're maybe still the HyperV evaluation phase, take a look at these limitations of HyperV and the "clustered" file system.
There is a limitation of software-based snapshots in the
architecture of Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes.
According to this article
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff634192.aspx Microsoft
recommends to back up VMs serially when software snapshots are used.
However, there is another article regarding the hardware snapshot providers
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff634220.aspx that says that
these types of VSS providers do not have such a restriction.Cheers