Liberto29

Thanks for the feedback and good suggestions. We saw a web demo of the Teralyte yesterday and I feel that is the direction we are leaning. The problem with using disk and tape is we have to now buy 2 different systems to basically backup the same data. This removable SATA system basically does both and gives us added capacity to boot. We looked into the loader option but because we found we had to replace our tapes here and there, the actual cost of disk is about the same. Thanks again for the help! Lib

Thanks for the help. I think eventually we are going to have more ESX servers so I guess I will have to make the case for Virtual Center. I did find out that our backup software vendor has a backup agent for Virtual Center that lets me buy one license to manage all my ESX servers. This will help as we expand because we won't have to purchase agents for each host or VM. Thanks again! Lib

Hi, I am looking into VMware and am planning on having 2 or 3 ESX servers. I noticed that each version we are looking at comes with a Virtual Center agent, but I saw that there is another Virtual Center license that we can buy that costs a good chunk of change. Can anyone shed any light on VMware's licensing for this product. In order to recognize my ESX servers do I need to buy a Virtual Center license? Thanks, Lib

Wow! Thanks for the fast response. We have about 800GB of data and it is growing. The system we are looking at has a native capacity of 1.5TB per drive bay. Uses SATA2 disks. I have tried the USB route. The only issue with USB is that transfer rates our pretty slow for our amount of data and when using numerous USB drives Windows would assign random drive letters which caused us to have to tweak things when we put a new one in. We want a solution that we can schedule our backup jobs and only have to deal with our media when we need to put a new one in or send something offsite. Thanks!

Hi - Our tape system has seen better days and I need to replace it by year end. Our reseller recommended an LTO drive from HP and a removable disk backup system from Idealstor. Has anyone hear backed up to a system like this before? (Teralyte Removable Disk Backup). It look like the capacity/speed is what I need but I am not familiar with them. We are an HP shop but it appears that they don't make something like this. Any feedback or potential gotcha's are appreciated. Thanks, Lib