One of which is the native file based backup and restore.
Vmware backup vcenter appliance.
Restore a vcenter server appliance from a file based backup.
The vcenter server appliance vcsa 6 5 is full of new and exclusive features.
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.
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.
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.
Vsphere data protection can be deployed to virtual machine file system vmfs network file system nfs and virtual san datastores.
I guess that many have already used it.
The first stage deploys a new vcenter server 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 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.
See this vmware kb on how to backup the database.
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.
The restore procedure has two stages.
When restoring the vcsa there are some considerations and limitations from vmware.
If you were unlucky to restore from that backup you know that this procedure is not that straightforward.
You can select whether to include historical data such as stats events and tasks in the backup file.
How to backup restore with vmware vcsa 6 7.
You can use the vcenter server appliance management interface to back up the vcenter server instance.
To backup the vcsa database step 2.
After the backup process finishes click ok to close the backup progress window.
The vmware vcenter server appliance management interface can be used to restore the vcenter instance to an esxi host or a vcenter server instance.
Results you successfully created a backup file of the vcenter server appliance.
An ability to back up and restore vcenter server appliance vcsa configurations appeared back in vcsa 6 5.
Management of vsphere data protection is done using the vsphere web client.
