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 VMWare ESX vmachine as BE 12 server
@ my facility, I have a Dell 2950 running ESX 3.5. It is hosting 4 VMs, 1 XP and 3 W2K3 servers. On average it is utilized about 1/3 of it capability. I want to use on of the W2K3 VMs to run BackupExec 12 on to back up my server rack to a PowerVault 124T. I plan on using an Adaptec 29160 as the SCSI controller which VMWare says ESX 3.5 supports. I have heard that some people have had performance problems with older versions of ESX talking to a SCSI tape drive.. Does anyone have any thoughts, comments, etc on this?

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ASKED: April 3, 2008  10:30 PM
UPDATED: February 3, 2009  2:36 PM

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Hi............. 1.what back up u r planning for is it a VCB or tradiational .... 2.which is the third party back up software u r using to back up the vm`s in our infrastucture we are using (esx3.5) VCB with Veritas netback up we are not facing any of the problems with backup ................ the back up performance depends on the way u design.............
Last Wiki Answer Submitted:  April 9, 2008  4:31 am  by  Arun kumar   55 pts.
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