What software to take images regularly

[wedmonds1]

Hi People,

I am looking at datto product Siris Lite which essentially takes backups of your servers on a regular basis and puts it into a cloud.

Its £599 up front plus £49 per month for 250gb but essentially its a small microserver with software built in.

Can anyone give me a guide as to what everyone else is using?

I am looking to backup some flakey servers on a regular basis so that I can bring the entire lot back up in the event of a crash and new to ESXI so not sure what is available and what people recommend.

Thanks

[DavoudTeimouri]

I didn't understand. Do you take backup from your ESXi? Or your virtual servers?

[wedmonds1]

Sorry... Should explain a little more.

I have used the standalone converter successfully and taken manual images to vmk files.

Ideally I would like to automate the process so that the software takes regular images of a server at various intervals (perhaps hourly or at the end of each day).

Once the image is take it would be good if I could then get it into the cloud for DR.

In the event of a DR I would then like to firstly be able to look at the local copy and at worst, recall the VM back from the cloud.

[admin]

You can use VDR or VDP (VMware vSphere Data protection) for backing up your VMs on ESXi

[Cyberfed27]

We use Veeam. By far the best backup solution for VMs in my opinion.

Simple to use and setup and it works as advertised.