What are STH members using for Hyper-V backup?
We have 2 DL380p gen8 servers in our organization (20-core,128GB RAM, RAID10...) loaded with VM's on Server 2012 R2 and the Hyper-V role and I've been evaluating different backup solutions. I need to make a decision and a purchase soon and I'm leaning toward Altaro Hyper-V Backup.
1) Altaro Hyper-V Backup. A reasonably priced solution that seems to be pretty good as far as performance and features are concerned. I've been evaluating this software since February and have had no major issues, but I also haven't recovered from a real failure (just sandbox), and I haven't had tested the advanced features like off-site backup. Is anyone else using this software?
2) Veeam. We are using Veeam for our VMware server, but the price to license two dual-socket Hyper-V servers is really high and I'd like to spend that budget on other things. Veeam is 'out' as far as I'm concerned right now, but I'm curious to know if anyone else here is using it over another option
3) HVbackup. HV Backup - Home The free, open source option, but very limited and requires very fast storage/network since it doesn't do differencing and creates a full backup of each VM each time. Also requires more manual work since it must be run manually or scheduled with Windows and has no management tools or notifications on failure.
4) Unitrends Virtual Backup (or PHD Virtual Backup when I evaluated it). I found this cumbersome to set up initially and was never fully comfortable that I had it configured properly to trust it for backups during my eval period. Anyone using it?
I'm curious hear from STH members on this topic.
We have 2 DL380p gen8 servers in our organization (20-core,128GB RAM, RAID10...) loaded with VM's on Server 2012 R2 and the Hyper-V role and I've been evaluating different backup solutions. I need to make a decision and a purchase soon and I'm leaning toward Altaro Hyper-V Backup.
1) Altaro Hyper-V Backup. A reasonably priced solution that seems to be pretty good as far as performance and features are concerned. I've been evaluating this software since February and have had no major issues, but I also haven't recovered from a real failure (just sandbox), and I haven't had tested the advanced features like off-site backup. Is anyone else using this software?
2) Veeam. We are using Veeam for our VMware server, but the price to license two dual-socket Hyper-V servers is really high and I'd like to spend that budget on other things. Veeam is 'out' as far as I'm concerned right now, but I'm curious to know if anyone else here is using it over another option
3) HVbackup. HV Backup - Home The free, open source option, but very limited and requires very fast storage/network since it doesn't do differencing and creates a full backup of each VM each time. Also requires more manual work since it must be run manually or scheduled with Windows and has no management tools or notifications on failure.
4) Unitrends Virtual Backup (or PHD Virtual Backup when I evaluated it). I found this cumbersome to set up initially and was never fully comfortable that I had it configured properly to trust it for backups during my eval period. Anyone using it?
I'm curious hear from STH members on this topic.