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