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CZhale
Asked: 2011-03-04 13:37:03 +0800 CST

Hyper-V host w/SCVMM & Backup Excec

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I wanted to get any feedback with installing Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager on our Hyper-V host that also has Symantec Backup Exec 2010.

Our host is running as a member of the domain, and has Backup Exec 2010 installed. We would like to add Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to manage our vm's. I know Microsoft recommends that not much of anything be running on the host, but I wanted to see if anyone is running this configuration and any potential problems/issues I should be looking for?

Also, can we use the workgroup edition of SCVMM or do we require the Enterprise edition?

Thanks,

hyper-v backupexec scvmm

2 Answers

  1. Im running SCVMM workgroup and be2010 on the same machine, although we're not attaching the hyper-v host to the domain. Everything seems to be running great.

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  2. The answer to your question about which edition is, "It depends"

    One of the only differences between Enterprise and Workgroup, is the amount of hosts you can manage with it. I don't know the number for Enterprise, but Workgroup is only 5 hosts. How many Hyper-V hosts are you going to be managing?

    As for installing Backup Exec, also, "It depends"

    How powerful is your server? Is it also running the Hyper-V role? Can you dedicate a few additional gigs of memory to just BE 2010? If so, I can't imagine any 'issues' arising, other than bring down performance and resources of the host OS and VMs, if applicable. As always with a VM host, the more you load onto the host OS, the less resources that will be available to your VMs.

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