i installed VDR over the weekend. and i'm pretty worried about the performance.
here are a sample of the backup logs. the odd thing is all of these VM's are THIN provisioned. and are no where NEAR as big as the space i have setup for them. most of them are 10-20gbyte total backups. NGTS03 for example is a Terminal Server clean 15gb used space
12/11/2009 6:01:41 PM: Normal backup using NGCSG
12/11/2009 6:02:36 PM: Copying NGTS03
12/11/2009 6:02:53 PM: Performing full back up of disk "[Site1_OS1] NGTS03/NGTS03-000001-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
12/11/2009 9:00:08 PM: Task completed successfully
12/11/2009 9:00:08 PM: Completed: 5 files, 80.1 GB
12/11/2009 9:00:08 PM: Performance: 462.3 MB/minute
12/11/2009 9:00:08 PM: Duration: 02:58:25 (00:01:12 idle/loading/preparing)
12/11/2009 8:25:08 PM: Normal backup using NGServers Backup
12/11/2009 8:25:13 PM: Copying NGRTS
12/11/2009 8:25:26 PM: Performing full back up of disk "[Site1_OS1] NGRTS/NGRTS-flat.vmdk" using "Network"
12/11/2009 10:14:19 PM: Task completed successfully
12/11/2009 10:14:19 PM: Completed: 5 files, 80.1 GB
12/11/2009 10:14:19 PM: Performance: 752.3 MB/minute
12/11/2009 10:14:19 PM: Duration: 01:49:10 (00:00:16 idle/loading/preparing)
12/11/2009 8:22:16 PM: Normal backup using NGServers Backup
12/11/2009 8:22:26 PM: Copying NGDATAEXCHANGE
12/11/2009 8:22:41 PM: Performing full back up of disk "[Site1_OS2] NGDATAEXCHANGE/NGDATAEXCHANGE-flat.vmdk" using "Network"
12/11/2009 11:11:38 PM: Task completed successfully
12/11/2009 11:11:38 PM: Completed: 5 files, 80.1 GB
12/11/2009 11:11:38 PM: Performance: 485.0 MB/minute
12/11/2009 11:11:38 PM: Duration: 02:49:18 (00:00:24 idle/loading/preparing)
12/11/2009 11:11:38 PM: Normal backup using KCUC Apps
12/11/2009 11:11:43 PM: Failed to create snapshot for KCUCAPP1, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce virtual machine)
12/11/2009 11:11:43 PM: Task incomplete
12/11/2009 10:14:21 PM: Normal backup using Pulse Servers
12/11/2009 10:14:35 PM: Copying VS-KCUCVM
12/11/2009 10:14:53 PM: Performing full back up of disk "[Site1_DB2] VS-KCUCVM/VS-KCUCVM-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
12/12/2009 1:00:51 AM: Task completed successfully
12/12/2009 1:00:51 AM: Completed: 5 files, 75.1 GB
12/12/2009 1:00:51 AM: Performance: 462.8 MB/minute
12/12/2009 1:00:51 AM: Duration: 02:46:28 (00:00:31 idle/loading/preparing)
12/11/2009 6:03:11 PM: Normal backup using Backup Job 1
12/11/2009 6:03:36 PM: Copying NGINTERFACE
12/11/2009 6:04:06 PM: Performing full back up of disk "[Site1_DB1] NGINTERFACE/NGINTERFACE-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
12/12/2009 2:12:37 AM: Performing full back up of disk "[Site1_OS1] NGINTERFACE/NGINTERFACE-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
12/12/2009 3:50:31 AM: Task completed successfully
12/12/2009 3:50:31 AM: Completed: 7 files, 410.1 GB
12/12/2009 3:50:31 AM: Performance: 716.0 MB/minute
12/12/2009 3:50:31 AM: Duration: 09:47:13 (00:00:55 idle/loading/preparing)
12/11/2009 8:49:32 PM: Normal backup using Pulse Servers
12/11/2009 8:49:52 PM: Copying KCUCDC01
12/11/2009 8:50:08 PM: Performing full back up of disk "[Site1_Pulse1] KCUCDC01/KCUCDC01-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
12/12/2009 5:17:59 AM: Task completed successfully
12/12/2009 5:17:59 AM: Completed: 5 files, 135.7 GB
12/12/2009 5:17:59 AM: Performance: 273.5 MB/minute
12/12/2009 5:17:59 AM: Duration: 08:28:22 (00:00:36 idle/loading/preparing)
12/11/2009 11:11:45 PM: Normal backup using KCUC Apps
12/11/2009 11:12:12 PM: Copying KCUCAPP3
12/11/2009 11:12:27 PM: Performing full back up of disk "[Site1_OS1] KCUCAPP3/KCUCAPP3-flat.vmdk" using "Network"
12/12/2009 6:26:20 AM: Task completed successfully
12/12/2009 6:26:20 AM: Completed: 5 files, 70.1 GB
12/12/2009 6:26:20 AM: Performance: 165.2 MB/minute
12/12/2009 6:26:20 AM: Duration: 07:14:30 (00:00:39 idle/loading/preparing)
12/11/2009 6:03:12 PM: Normal backup using Backup Job 1
12/11/2009 6:03:51 PM: Copying NGREPORT
12/11/2009 6:04:25 PM: Performing full back up of disk "[Site1_DB2] NGREPORT/NGREPORT-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
12/12/2009 3:56:14 AM: Performing full back up of disk "[Site1_OS2] NGREPORT/NGREPORT-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
12/12/2009 7:00:48 AM: Task completed successfully
12/12/2009 7:00:48 AM: Completed: 7 files, 572.1 GB
12/12/2009 7:00:48 AM: Performance: 754.5 MB/minute
12/12/2009 7:00:48 AM: Duration: 12:57:26 (00:01:13 idle/loading/preparing)