Hi,
I have a new VMware-environment based on ESXi 5.5 and the vCenter Server Appliance. A couple of questions:
Best regards
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Thor-Egil
Hi,
you can use VMware VDP to backup your vCenter Appliance. It's included in essentials plus, standard, enterprise and enterprise plus licenses.
I won't do backups of ESXi hosts. Restoring the backup would take more time than deploying a new ESXi.Only thing you might want to consider is to enable remote logging, so you can see why hosts failed.
Regards
Tim
Hi,
you can use VMware VDP to backup your vCenter Appliance. It's included in essentials plus, standard, enterprise and enterprise plus licenses.
I won't do backups of ESXi hosts. Restoring the backup would take more time than deploying a new ESXi.Only thing you might want to consider is to enable remote logging, so you can see why hosts failed.
Regards
Tim
VMware VDP is a valid option.
If you, for whatever reason, want to manually backup all the important stuff from a VCSA like the database, SSO configuration and SSL certs;
You could follow these procedures: Backing up the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) | CloudFix
