![]() Think about it from the business perspective - they paid for two hosts and three VM's.and the tab is still open. They likely don't have any money budgeted for IT because the previous MSP shafted them for two hosts and three VM's and ran away laughing. I've also been in this exact same scenario so many times it makes me ill. So does the veeam agent work better then the windows backup program? I still recommend what Rod stated with Hyperv 2016 right now as the host and move the VMs to the host. Veeam Agent allows you to recover to any device the VM after restore. If it was Exchange or SQL it will prune the application/database logs and make sure it maintains it clean. Veeam Agent will be run in the OS Level of the VM not backing up the VMDK datastore. What is the difference in backing up at the hypervisor level what does it grab that the veeam free agent doesnt?ĭoes the veeam free agent work differnet from windows backup? Thanks for this info by using the veeam free agent does it backup he vmdk? You can use a Veem agent to backup the guests even on the free ESXi. Unless there is some driving reason to change their working environment. No reason to switch to Hyper-V, they can use ESXi free all they want. If they want a paid release for whatever reason there is a pure subscription of vSphere essentials that's ~$200 a year I think (I don't look at pricing that often these days). For a customer who likes running releases for 10 years I'd rather have the smaller more hardened system, and one that's management depenency is just a web browser. Esxi free edition install#It's a lot more hardened than other options (1GB for minimum install vs. Esxi free edition Patch#Backup API's really make sense at scale where CBT is needed.ĮSXi 6.5 and newer will get you a nice HTML5 UI to manage and patch the hosts from. ![]() If you only have 3 VM's and want bare metal recovery GhettoVCB has been updated recently.įor 3 VM's though Veeam Agents should be more than fine at this scale. If they are going to consider upgrades to 6.5 or 6.7 then they likely also need new hardware to be supported on the HCL from the VMware side. I am a VMware person, so I prefer ESXi over Hyper-V for many reasons, but if budget is an issue and API access is something they want, for guest level backups, then Hyper-V or pay are the options (the former being familiar to most)Īlso bare in mind if they are running 5.1 their kit is likely old, so upgrading while possible, may put them in an unsupported state, they would need to be going to a minimum of 6.0 as anything higher is even less likely to be supported. Esxi free edition full#True as that is, they have to then do agent based backups, with Hyper-V it's free and no restrictions are in place so they can do full VM level backups and not just OS level.
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