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How do you currently backup your VMs ? (you can exclude VSA Appliances, I would backup Trend.).
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How do you currently backup your VMs ? (you can exclude VSA Appliances, I would backup Trend.).

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Using Barracuda Backup.<br />
It connects directly to each host. &nbsp;I manually select the VMs running on each host.<br />
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DSVA - Yes, I am backing this up.<br />
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The VSAs don't seem to backup properly. &nbsp;I'll exclude them. &nbsp;My thought is that it would be redundant anyway.
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Using Barracuda Backup.
It connects directly to each host.  I manually select the VMs running on each host.

DSVA - Yes, I am backing this up.

The VSAs don't seem to backup properly.  I'll exclude them.  My thought is that it would be redundant anyway.

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Will do. &nbsp;I've created baseline images/templates for a server deployment. &nbsp;They don't show up in the backup interface. &nbsp;Is this standard procedure?
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Will do.  I've created baseline images/templates for a server deployment.  They don't show up in the backup interface.  Is this standard procedure?

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This is very common, that templates do not appear, as technically they are not VMs.<br />
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They are static, and if templates, golden masters, so Convert to VMs, and backup one time.
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This is very common, that templates do not appear, as technically they are not VMs.

They are static, and if templates, golden masters, so Convert to VMs, and backup one time.

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Hi,<br />
I am curious about some items in my VM Ware environment, and whether or not they need to be backed up.<br />
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We have a 2 host cluster.<br />
Each host has a vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA-0 and VSA-1).<br />
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We also have Deep Security (Trend) - DSVA1 and DSVA2.<br />
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Do these 4 items need to be backed up? &nbsp;<br />
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Since the VSAs are the storage appliances, and the VMs are being backed up, does it make sense to backup the VSA? &nbsp;I've tried to backup VSA-1 (1.37TB), but only 5GB backed up.<br />
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Thanks,
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Hi,
I am curious about some items in my VM Ware environment, and whether or not they need to be backed up.

We have a 2 host cluster.
Each host has a vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA-0 and VSA-1).

We also have Deep Security (Trend) - DSVA1 and DSVA2.

Do these 4 items need to be backed up?  

Since the VSAs are the storage appliances, and the VMs are being backed up, does it make sense to backup the VSA?  I've tried to backup VSA-1 (1.37TB), but only 5GB backed up.

Thanks,

VMWare - Backup Question

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.

VMware

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.