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kopper27
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Restore VM Offisite

Hi guys

I have a customer that wants to backup their VMs and send them to our Virtual Datacenter, using a USB Hard Drive

they want to export the VM files and we are going to import them in our vCenter.

the VMs are going to be off all the time (this is for disaster Recovery and their RPO/RTO is no really imporat). Now they are planning to send those VMs to our Virtual Datacenter every 15 days.

I am just thinking this is going to be a very manual process where I have to use Vmware Converter and upload the VMs again.... imagine if Day 1: VM1 was 50GB and 15 days later VM1 is 52 GB I will have to upload it again

so my question is there a way or software that will detect the VM is already there in the datastore and just copy what has changed? and It wil just copy the new 2 GB instead of all the the 52 GB, you know way less time doing this task.

thanks

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dhanarajramesh

I don't have any solution but I suggest export as ovf and deploy it.  it will save some times rather than exporting all the files.

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kongkong
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try vSphere Replication?

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kopper27
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yeah, that's a way to go

thanks

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kopper27
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yes, that's the think they say they RPO-RTO is not that important so they can have their infrastructure down for 2 days so they don't need continuos replica....I think replica is kind of expensive for them

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