Vmware Backup Appliance

One of which is the native file based backup and restore.

Vmware backup appliance.

The vcenter server appliance vcsa 6 5 is full of new and exclusive features. In vsphere 6 5 you can use the vcenter server appliance management interface to create a file based backup of the vcenter server appliance and platform services controller appliance. An ability to back up and restore vcenter server appliance vcsa configurations appeared back in vcsa 6 5. Log in as root.

The vcenter server appliance supports a file based backup and restore mechanism that helps you to recover your environment after failures. Create a hyperconverged backup appliance by installing on synology qnap asustor netgear freenas or western digital nas. Backup a vcenter server appliance by using the vcenter server appliance management interface the vmware vcenter server appliance management interface can be used to back up the vcenter instance. Vmware file level backup the file level backup introduced in vsphere 6 0 is a convenient way to have an up to date granular backup of your full configuration if you don t do regular image level backups or your software vendor does not support vsphere 7 0 just yet if you have already upgraded your vcenter server to version 7 0.

To create and edit a backup job use the backup tab of the vsphere data protection interface in the vsphere web client. How to backup restore with vmware vcsa 6 7. I guess that many have already used it. If you were unlucky to restore from that backup you know that this procedure is not that straightforward.

In a web browser go to the vcenter server appliance management interface https appliance ip address or fqdn 5480. Vmware backup hyper v backup nutanix ahv backup microsoft office 365 backup windows server backup. Each vdp appliance can simultaneously backup up to 8 virtual machines if the internal proxy is used or up to 24 virtual machines if external proxies are deployed. Within the gui you can select whether or not to include historical data such as stats events and tasks in the backup file the inventory and core.

Deduplication takes place within the vdp appliance. In the vcenter server appliance management interface click summary.