Since my lab is so small It's really not worth it to me to try and use backup software which tons of features I really don't need. If I were to lose my ESXi and had to re-install it would I apply the same license I had before? Would it still allow me to re-install my VM's the same way I'm describing above? What am I missing here? I've read something about not being able to restore on a different license number (different instance of ESXi).
So, if just preserving copies of my VM directories is enough to effectively "backup" my VM, then that's probably the easiest way for me to go. I tried pulling a WIN10 VM over to my nas, zipped, unzipped, moved it back to ESXi under a different directory and re-added it to the inventory and it seems to be working just fine. Since my VM's are very static in nature I am fine doing that myself manually. It seems like all these backup programs are doing is making a copy of the VM directory and zipping it. What about ESXi itself? What's the best way to get that backed up? I'm trying to protect myself should my USB Boot Key and Raid5 array go south without having to reinstall and reconfigure all of ESXi (which is now fuzzy in my mind). I see there is free software to backup VM's (Veem). That would allow me to restore the usb key quickly should it fail I suppose for the USB KEY I could just take a snapshot of that using some kind of iso making software. To be honest I've forgotten a lot of the customization I did when I first set up the environment so being able to easily recover would be really nice. In the event the USB KEY or the RAID should become unrecoverable I could restore my environment without too much hastle.
I boot from a USB KEY installed inside the R710. Most of the time I only have a single win7 VM powered on that run a specific app for my network.Īll my VM's and ESXi install sits on a 4 drive raid5 setup. I create new vm's from time to time for certain projects, but for the most part this is my environment. I then went on to create 4 VM's, (2) Win 10, (1) UBuntu 18 and (1) Win 7. I went out and got a Dell R710 and installed the Dell optimized ESXi 6.0 software on it. A year ago I decided it was time to learn some VM.
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