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tamuxu
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Enthusiast

Is it possible to backup ESXi host only , all ESXi host environment including guest OS ?

We use one vSphere 4.1 host.

Is it possible to backup ESXi host only ?

Is it possible to backup all ESXi host environment including guest OS ?

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npadmani
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

1) backup and restore ESXi host configuration

VMware KB: Backing up and restoring ESXi configuration using the vSphere Command-Line Interface and ...

2) Backup all together, ESXi config and VMs, we cannot do that. We got to take VMs backup separately. there's many backup solutions available. One of them is vSphere Data Protection (VDP), please refer following tech paper for the same. It's for VDP 5.1, but I am sure you will be able to locate similar documentation for latest version too which is VDP 6.0

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Introduction-to-Data-Protection.pdf

Since your question is associated with vSphere 4.1, I would recommend using following documentation for detailed info. about it.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_vcb_15_u1_admin_guide.pdf

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