Hi folks,
I'm running backup for medium size business' server environment, and am encountering a few problems with backups to Deduplicated datastores.
Basically, I'm trying to find out what the "Best practice" recommendations are. I won't go into detail about the problems just yet. Instead, I'll lay out what I'm working with and see how the community would recommend I set it up.
So, we have approx 70 production VMs, most of which need to be backed up.
The media server lives in the VMware infrastructure as well.
The backup target is a low cost iSCSI SAN, there's one LUN configured for use as a deduplicated datastore, and one smaller LUN configured for standard backups.
All the ethernet is aggregated, so there's plenty of backup.
I've seen up to 4GB per minute backing up to the standard store. Deduplcated backups are at best 1.3, but usually below 1gb per minute.
How would you guys set this up? Is a VM ok? Should I be recommending a physical server?
Thanks in advance!
Max