ESXI VM Backup
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What's the easiest and cheapest backup to employ on ESXI to backup VM's once they are configured?
I have vSphere essentials and not essentials plus so I don't have the built-in backup.
Is there something that will auto backup all the ESXI host settings / config also?
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@eleceng said in ESXI VM Backup:
What's the easiest and cheapest backup to employ on ESXI to backup VM's once they are configured?
I have vSphere essentials and not essentials plus so I don't have the built-in backup.
Is there something that will auto backup all the ESXI host settings / config also?
Veeam B&R is free for 10 or less VM's, while not horribly expensive if you have more.
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@eleceng said in ESXI VM Backup:
What's the easiest and cheapest backup to employ on ESXI to backup VM's once they are configured?
I literally just wrote the book on this! Submitted to the publisher last night. Bottom line, you ALWAYS have to do due diligence, no backup solution will reliably backup any environment if you don't know how the workloads work with storage. Had a customer get burned by this, literally two hours ago, because they thought that they could just have X hypervisor and Y backup solution and leave it at that.
Everything works sometimes, nothing works all the time. As the system admin, you just always have to know your workloads.
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@jaredbusch said in ESXI VM Backup:
@eleceng said in ESXI VM Backup:
What's the easiest and cheapest backup to employ on ESXI to backup VM's once they are configured?
I have vSphere essentials and not essentials plus so I don't have the built-in backup.
Is there something that will auto backup all the ESXI host settings / config also?
Veeam B&R is free for 10 or less VM's, while not horribly expensive if you have more.
This is the solution that my customer went in blindly with and got burned because it didn't have an agent to talk to their applications and their systems were corrupted in a totally predictable way. It's an amazing product, but no product can bypass the system admin's need to know their workloads.
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@eleceng said in ESXI VM Backup:
I have vSphere essentials and not essentials plus so I don't have the built-in backup.
If you want blind backups, ProxMox gives you more including backups, all for free. It's no safer than any other "agentless" backup, but at least it is free end to end.
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@scottalanmiller said in ESXI VM Backup:
@jaredbusch said in ESXI VM Backup:
@eleceng said in ESXI VM Backup:
What's the easiest and cheapest backup to employ on ESXI to backup VM's once they are configured?
I have vSphere essentials and not essentials plus so I don't have the built-in backup.
Is there something that will auto backup all the ESXI host settings / config also?
Veeam B&R is free for 10 or less VM's, while not horribly expensive if you have more.
This is the solution that my customer went in blindly with and got burned because it didn't have an agent to talk to their applications and their systems were corrupted in a totally predictable way. It's an amazing product, but no product can bypass the system admin's need to know their workloads.
Also shows they never did a restore to understand that full process.
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@scottalanmiller said in ESXI VM Backup:
This is the solution that my customer went in blindly with and got burned because it didn't have an agent to talk to their applications and their systems were corrupted in a totally predictable way. It's an amazing product, but no product can bypass the system admin's need to know their workloads.
So what your saying is even though they had something backing up blindly on the Hypervisor level (i.e backs up the whole VM), and no agent. Their application kind of corrupted it, so when the VM restored the application just crapped out
As already mentioned this is why you need to test and restore
.We're bad at this at the moment, but in the process of planning a DR exercise.
