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.
Vmware backup appliance.
Create a hyperconverged backup appliance by installing on synology qnap asustor netgear freenas or western digital nas.
Each vdp appliance can simultaneously backup up to 8 virtual machines if the internal proxy is used or up to 24 virtual machines if external proxies are deployed.
To create and edit a backup job use the backup tab of the vsphere data protection interface in the vsphere web client.
In a web browser go to the vcenter server appliance management interface https appliance ip address or fqdn 5480.
The vcenter server appliance supports a file based backup and restore mechanism that helps you to recover your environment after failures.
Vmware file level backup the file level backup introduced in vsphere 6 0 is a convenient way to have an up to date granular backup of your full configuration if you don t do regular image level backups or your software vendor does not support vsphere 7 0 just yet if you have already upgraded your vcenter server to version 7 0.
Within the gui you can select whether or not to include historical data such as stats events and tasks in the backup file the inventory and core.
After you create the backup you can restore it by using the gui.
An ability to back up and restore vcenter server appliance vcsa configurations appeared back in vcsa 6 5.
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.
Log in as root.
Deduplication takes place within the vdp appliance.
Backup a vcenter server appliance by using the vcenter server appliance management interface the vmware vcenter server appliance management interface can be used to back up the vcenter instance.
The vcenter server appliance vcsa 6 5 is full of new and exclusive features.
If you were unlucky to restore from that backup you know that this procedure is not that straightforward.
One of which is the native file based backup and restore.
I guess that many have already used it.
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