04-15-2015 09:18 PM
So I found this bad little nugget in the BE 15 readme:
Features or requirements no longer supported by Backup Exec 15
The Agent for VMware no longer supports ESX/ESXi 3.x, 4.x, and 5.0.
So it looks like I am stuck on BE2014 as I am still running ESXi 5.0... argh!
Upgrading VMWare is not a luxury I have at the moment. Oh well BE 2014 at least is going OK.
04-15-2015 09:37 PM
BE 15 uses VDDK 6.0 which actually isn't backwards compatible with ESX 5.0 and earlier and hence the reason for dropping the support.
04-15-2015 10:25 PM
Currently, none of the free version of ESX is supported with Backup exec.In order to support esx 5.0 you have to continue with BE 2014
04-15-2015 11:31 PM
...ESXi 5.0 does not necessarily mean the free version of VMware. The name was changed with ESXi 4.1...in all likelihood the OP is running the full version of ESXi 5.0.
Thanks!