ESX 3.5 backup Suggestions / Help

Hi all!  It's been a while since I've visited these forums but recently I tried to get a plan to back up our virtual environment.  First, here's a quick description of our virtual environment:

3 Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 32 GB of RAM each, NIC 6 (2 on board, 2 dual port cards), each two-processor Xeon 5345

1 Dell / Equallogic PS400E SAN

ESX 3.5 UPD 1 Standard x 3, VC 2.5 Foundation (non-virtual)

Here are our current backup environment / method:

CA Arcserv 12 backup each VM (local disk + the system state) as a backup of 'level of files', something in the neighborhood of 2 TB - not a backup complete VM

I've suggested that we do was buy VMware Agent for Arcserv of CA software and a basic backup unit (unit 3 TB ExaGrid) disk which should be installed and configured by our SAN provider.  The idea was to start to full backup of virtual machine alongside our backup process normal precautionary measure for the updates of the firmware of the SAN, semi DR, software ESX upgrades / updates, etc.  Essentially to give me peace of mind and a way out of what I consider to be a 'disaster' that is losing the San or a firmware update gone bad.  Due to the cost of the solution, the idea was struck down.  Now, I'm first trying to find an "cheaper" alternative for giving me some peace of mind.

Some of the ideas I had would be to buy a NAS cheap with sufficient capacity to allow me to get a complete virtual machine backup before making any changes I need to do but I'm not sure what all I would need to be able to do something like that.  Would I need to the Arcserv for VMware agent or something like that (maybe EsXpress or vRanger Pro etc connection) or I could shoot with just VCB?  Would it be possible to not even use VCB and up volume on the SAN, and copy the files or do I need something like VCB to put the files in the correct state?  Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks!

When VCB puts these offline files is the virtual machine offline, the duration of the backup?

N ° snapshot functionality has been designed so that you don't have to take the virtual machine offline.

With Arcserv (or VCB) to put the files somewhere I think it would be unwise to put them back on the SAN then maybe local storage (DAS) or storage (NAS) networking maybe?

Thaat's what we do as well.  We are valuable SAN performance real estate for the archives, which would be a waste, so we use the SATA storage premises.

Or are you saying that acrserv should be able to recover the files from the SAN to bring broadband (or other)?

Probably better to stage, the first save, perhaps of local disk, a NAS or Windows file store.  Use your backup software to process these files as you would for a physical server, and then move those band.  You can probably go live on tape, but if the backup fails, you are wasting time / Ribbon, featuring it it will be easier to manage also.

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