Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual (Page 7)

VMware Virtual Machine Protection
7 October 2008
Installing an Agent in each of the Guest VM systems can be cost prohibitive for many
organizations in terms of both money and i/o performance on the ESX server. Existing Backup
Exec licensing applies to VMware environments. Backup Exec and its Agents are licensed on a
per server basis regardless of whether they are physical or virtual servers For example, if three
Guest virtual machines running Windows 2003 being protected by a Backup Exec Media Server
would require:
1 Backup Exec for Windows Servers Media Server License
3 Backup Exec Agent for Windows Systems (AWS) Licenses (Agent for Windows
Systems licenses include both a Continuous Protection Agent and a Remote Agent
for Windows Systems license)
DISADVANTAGES OF BACKUP EXEC AGENTS IN GUEST VM BACKUP
Figure 3. Installing RALUS in the VMware ESX 3 Service Console
SERVICE CONSOLE BACKUP AND RECOVERY METHOD OF .VMDK FILES WITH
The Backup Exec for Windows Servers Remote Agent for Linux and Unix Servers (RALUS) can
be installed directly on the ESX 3 Service Console to protect the .vmdk and .vmx files on the
VMware supported file systems including EXT3 and VMFS. (see Figure 3- Installing RALUS in
the VMware ESX 3 Service Console)