Veeam Backup and Replication with VMWare and Legato

[Pietmuis]

Hi Guys,

I need some advice please currently we are running around 100VMs on ESXi 4.x on 4 hosts with VCentre, this is backed up by Legato Networker 7.5 via VCB to tape.

We are in the progress off planning an upgrade to ESXi5 including a hardware refresh. Apparently Legato Networker 7.5 does not support ESXi5 via VCB backups any longer and we will need to upgrade Legato as well.

Then we have the requirement to replicate some of our VMs (only around 20) to a remote location over a 100meg link.

I am considering Veeam Backup and Replication as a solution. I have only had good comments about the replication part but what about the backup part, can it replace something like Legato? Thinking that we will backup to disk with Veeam and then still use Legato to dump those to tape. This will save some costs on Legato licensing. Any pitfalls or other plans?

Any advice will be appreciated!


Thanks!

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello Pietmuis,

Your approach seems good to me, as there are lots of existing examples of successful Veeam B&R and Networker co-existence. Many our customers are using Veeam to backup VMs and then offload backup files to tapes via Networker.

Please search our forums for more details: http://forums.veeam.com/search.php?keywords=legato or http://forums.veeam.com/search.php?keywords=networker

Thanks!