We are new to VMware. Small environment with 2 ESXi 4.1 U2 hosts and 15 windows VMs. vCenter runs on a VM and uses SQL eXpress. Trying to cover all the bases on backups, we are building a job on the vCenter server to back up ESXi host configs and the vCenter and ADAM database using scripts found in this forum.
The question(s): What value is there in backing up the vCenter and ADAM databases? In a disaster scenario (i.e. both hosts burn to the ground), what value is there in having copies of the databases? If we lose the vCenter VM and have to rebuild, what will we gain by having the databases? If the database becomes corrupt, will restoring the last backup work?
We do take VDR snapshots nightly, so I am thinking backing up the databases may be redundant.
