Vmware Data Recovery advice

[Guv]

I need a bit information about vmware data recovery in terms of backing up our virtual machines.  We have a Data centre where we have about over 100 VM's, these are backed up by a 3rd party software.

We have also sites across europe, about 8 sites which have their own datacentre setup in VC, and also have 2 esx servers in a cluster and have about 8 Vm's on each site.  These 8 Vm's per site are not backed up, so looking for a simple solution, and thought of  using vmware data recovery.  The esx servers in each site have access to shared storage which is in form of a nfs.

So how would i implement vmware data recovery , would i install it once per a virtual centre at one specific site and use that one to backup all the VM's in the 8 sites, so could the vmware data recovery backup Vm's at different data centres at one time.

Any advise on this.

[piaroa]

I think it's better if you deploy a Data Recovery appliance per site, since the data will pass thru the appliance to be deduped, etc. If you use a centralized Data Recovery, you will put a lot of stress on you WAN when backups kick in.

[idle-jam]

i would go for per site as it would not consumed the bandwidth across datacenters, also it make sense when during restoration as it's in LAN speed.

[Mautje]

Did this work? I've done this but now our WAN connections are sort of stressed because of the generated traffic.