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