Are vStorage APIs for Data Protection supported on ESXi?

[pat_allen]

Hi - We're just powering up our production environment and my supervisor found a rather disquieting comment on one of the VMware pages: "The vStorage APIs for Data Protection are the next generation of VMware Consolidated Backup and are...

We're currently using ESXi in our test lab and were planning on using it in production but this would be a major problem. I'm hoping that this refers to the free version of ESXi but I can't find a definitive answer. As an aside, we have an enterprise plus license.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. THANKS!

Pat

[MattG]

It does not work with free ESXi. You need to be licensed to use 3rd party image based bup utilities with ESXi.

-MattG

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[AntonVZhbankov]

It is not supported on Free ESXi.

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[pat_allen]

Thanks for the quick replies. That's what I was figuring. Do you by any chance have any references to that so I can pass them along?

[pat_allen]

Thanks - do you have any references that I can pass along that show it's just the free ESXi that isn't supported?

[AntonVZhbankov · Accepted solution]

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

You can see that vStorage API is included to all editions, and all editions supporth both ESX and ESXi.

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MCSA, MCTS, VCP, VMware vExpert '2009

http://blog.vadmin.ru