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Best practice for backup of vCenter Appliance and ESXi-hosts?

Hi,

I have a new VMware-environment based on ESXi 5.5 and the vCenter Server Appliance. A couple of questions:

  • What is the best-practice for running backup of the vCenter Server Appliance? I have set up the appliance with the embedded SQL Express database.
  • Is it recommended to back up the ESXi-hosts or is it easier to just re-install in the case of a failure?

Best regards
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Thor-Egil

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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

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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

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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

Niels Hagoort Cloudfix.nl
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