Vmware Backup Vcenter Appliance

The restore procedure has two stages.

Vmware backup vcenter appliance.

I m happy to announce two new guided walkthroughs on the vmware feature walkthrough site these walkthroughs will help illustrate how to setup the vcenter server appliance file based backup feature. The backup progress window opens and indicates the progress of the backup operation. To backup the vcsa database step 2. Vsphere data protection is deployed as a virtual appliance with four processors vcpus and at least 4gb of memory depending on the backup data capacity of the appliance.

How to backup restore with vmware vcsa 6 7. An ability to back up and restore vcenter server appliance vcsa configurations appeared back in vcsa 6 5. See this vmware kb on how to backup the database. After the backup process finishes click ok to close the backup progress window.

When restoring the vcsa there are some considerations and limitations from vmware. The vcenter server appliance vcsa 6 5 is full of new and exclusive features. The vcenter server appliance supports a file based backup and restore mechanism that helps you to recover your environment after failures. Restore a vcenter server appliance from a file based backup.

Results you successfully created a backup file of the vcenter server appliance. The first stage deploys a new vcenter server appliance. You can use the vcenter server appliance management interface to back up the vcenter server instance. You can select whether to include historical data such as stats events and tasks in the backup file.

If you were unlucky to restore from that backup you know that this procedure is not that straightforward. Management of vsphere data protection is done using the vsphere web client. The vcenter server appliance vcsa had several exclusive features introduced in vsphere 6 5 one of those features was the built in file based backup and restore this native backup solution is available within the vmware appliance management interface on port 5480. This article is only supported for backup and restore of the vpostgres database to the same vcenter server or vcenter server appliance use of image based backup and restore is the only solution supported for performing a full secondary appliance restore.

After you create the backup you can restore it by using the gui. In vsphere 6 5 you can use the vcenter server appliance management interface to create a file based backup of the vcenter server appliance and platform services controller appliance. Once you understand the considerations and limitations it s important to understand how to restore your vcenter when there is no vcenter in which to. I guess that many have already used it.