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How to backup VMS running on Vmware ESXI 7 Free version?
Hi there,
A client hired us to install a new DELL T340 PE server running Vmware ESXI 7 U2 for them.
They want to be able to backup the 2 vms without shutting them down.
I had explained that you need a licensed version of ESXI to enable the APIs to do this.
They are telling me that with version 7 this is no longer the case?
I don't believe this to be true.
Look forward to your feedback on this
Thanks
A client hired us to install a new DELL T340 PE server running Vmware ESXI 7 U2 for them.
They want to be able to backup the 2 vms without shutting them down.
I had explained that you need a licensed version of ESXI to enable the APIs to do this.
They are telling me that with version 7 this is no longer the case?
I don't believe this to be true.
Look forward to your feedback on this
Thanks
ASKER
This is my understanding as well
But they have an IT consultant that claims with version 7 and higher vmware now allows this?
But they have an IT consultant that claims with version 7 and higher vmware now allows this?
<doubt> The API is normally read only?
Wanders over to his test bench...................
Wanders over to his test bench...................
----For reasons to long an tedious to go into, I cant get my Veeam server and an ESX7 machine on the same network :(
-I've got Veeam to upgrade - a VPN to fix, and a SAN to reboot - wish I'd never started now.
-I've got Veeam to upgrade - a VPN to fix, and a SAN to reboot - wish I'd never started now.
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I agree he claims version 7 allows this is not the case!
Does anyone know if the really basic license I believe called TERM or KIT? allows backups?
Does anyone know if the really basic license I believe called TERM or KIT? allows backups?
I've never heard of either of those? But then I work for a VMware provider, so we have a different licence model, and anyone who wanted to run a free hypervisor in one of our DCs would be on their own.
Its cost more for me to have these conversations that a VMware licence would cost!
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Its cost more for me to have these conversations that a VMware licence would cost!
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