Multiple VBR - Server with VMWare Cluster

[fklein]

Hi there,

we recently started managing a customer who has a hosted VMWare-cluster (3hosts with SAN). The "Hosting"-Company already backups up the cluster with their own VBR (30 days retention just for their disaster recovery).
We like to establish our own "customer owned/serviceprovider managed" - VBR and do our own backups with the retention our customer needs.

What we don't know, is it possible to have two VBR-Sewrver (that don't know of each other) backing up own VMWare-Cluster and what possible problems can come up?

Regards,
Florian

[Mildur]

Hi Florian,

From a technical standpoint, it will work as long as you don’t run backup jobs from the same virtual machine at the same time.

Keep in mind that you must use your own rental license to protect your customers VMs, regardless of what the hosting company does. Since different service providers are involved and the backup infrastructures are dedicated, license sharing between the hosting company and you won’t be possible.

Best,
Fabian