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Hi,<br />
What is the best way to backup VMware virtual machine manually till we have Veeam / others backup software in place?<br />
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Currently I have part of the infrastructure under a vCenter Managed HA and the rest on standalone VMware Hosts running VMs independently. <br />
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- Shall I use vConverter to copy the VMs to a local disk? or Turn the VM off and download its VM directory from the Datastore.<br />
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Please advice on the best practices.<br />
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Thanks<br />
Zen
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Hi,
What is the best way to backup VMware virtual machine manually till we have Veeam / others backup software in place?

Currently I have part of the infrastructure under a vCenter Managed HA and the rest on standalone VMware Hosts running VMs independently. 

- Shall I use vConverter to copy the VMs to a local disk? or Turn the VM off and download its VM directory from the Datastore.

Please advice on the best practices.

Thanks
Zen

Virtual Machine Backup - Manual Best Practices

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.