Licenciamiento Backup Exec

[Zamorano]

Hola:

Estamos pensando en comprar Backup Exec para hacer copias a LTO de las máquinas virtuales incluídas en un pequeño sistema de virtualización, pero no nos aclaramos con las licencias, agentes, tipos de productos... y necesitamos algo de ayuda.

Lo que tenemos son dos servidores físicos con Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, uno de ellos con una LTO SAS conectada, y un almacenamiento mixto iSCSI/NAS (un SnapServer 410). En total tenemos 8 servidores virtuales, 4 en cada servidor físico, y queríamos sacar backup de cada uno de los VHD online de forma regular directamente a cinta. Todos los VHDs están en el almacenamiento y son accedidos via iSCSI desde los servidores físicos. También hay información compartida directamente desde el almacenamiento en red que nos interesaría incluir en las copias. ¿Alguien puede orientarnos sobre lo que tenemos que comprar? Gracias.

También estamos barajando la opción de usar CSV para los servidores virtuales. Lo digo por si esto tiene algún requerimiento especial a la hora de hacer los backups.

Saludos.

[AmolB]

You will need following licenses.

1) Backup Exec core product license, install BE on the server which has the tape device connected.

2) Two AVVI(agent for virtual infrastructure) with 1 AVVI you can backup all the Virtuals Machines 

    hosted on the physical server. 

Note: 1 AVVI per host machine is required.

3) If you want to backup any application then you need an agent which supports that application.

    Eg: for exchange you need Agent for Exchange, for SQL you need Agent for SQL etc.

4) Backup Exec core product supports 1 tape drive per library, for every additional tape drive in the 

  library you will need a LEO.

[Zamorano]

Thanks.

I think that AVVI is intended for using with VMware, but we're going to use Hyper-V so I think that we're going to need the equivalent agents for Hyper-V. Is there any one for backup exec?

Another question: for backing up network shares hosted in the storage I think about mapping this shares to network drives in one of the physical servers, and backing up them directly to tape; do we need any other license to be able to do this? Is there a better way to backup this files?

Final question: is there any official list of Backup Exec supported tape drives?

Thanks again.

[AmolB]

For supported Tape drives you need to check hardware compatibility list of Backup Exec.

[pkh]

There is an AVVI-equivalent agent, AMHV (Agent for Microsoft Hyper-V) for Hyper-V.

To backup your network shares, you need 1 RAWS licence per remote server/device, regardless of whether you install the remote agent on the remote server/device.  You should not map the shares, but define them to BE using their UNC names.