Title

Proven Practice: Integrating CA BrightStor ARCserve 11.5 for Windows with VMware VCB Proxy Server

Version

VMware 07/AUG/2008 1.0

Rodney Haywood (Rodos) 18/02/2009 1.1 - Updated outline to match document, fix broken VMware image. Remove reference to vcbRestore which is not covered in the actual document.

Author

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Chris Skinner

ccskinner@vmware.com

Tags

availability backup brightstor arcserve_11.5 VCB vmware_consolidated_backup

Location

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Context

Instead of installing backup agents in all of our guests and backing up over the LAN, we prefer to use VCB with our chosen backup provider in LAN-free mode.

VMware Consolidated Backup enables the LAN-free operation by providing access to the VMDKs and quiescing guest disk operations to provide a clean backup, but you still need backup software to read the mounted disk and back it up.

In our case we use CA BrightStor ARCserve 11.5.

Actors

VMware Certified Professionals, Storage Management / Sysadmin / Operations / Backup experts

References

See attached PDF

Outline

1. Installing BrightStor ARCserve on VCB Proxy Server

2. Configuring the ARCserve VCB Integration Module

3. Configuring BrightStor ARCserve

4. Creating a Virtual Machine Backup Job

5. Modifying the Backup Job

6. Configuring Unix Services for Windows

Disclaimer

You use this proven practice at your discretion. VMware and the author do not guarantee any results from the use of this proven practice. This proven practice is provided on an as-is basis and is for demonstration purposes only.