Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI/aSV)

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Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI/aSV) {{ breadTitle }} User Manual HCI Platform Configuration Guide VMware Management Backup of VMware Virtual Machines
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Backup of VMware Virtual Machines

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Description

HCI supports backing up VMware virtual machines to its platform and supports restoring the backed up virtual machines to the HCI platform or VMware vCenter.

Precautions

None.

Prerequisites

HCI requires the authorization of the number of backup virtual machines to be enabled.

Steps

  1. Under Compute > VMware vCenter, select the virtual machine that needs to be backed up.

  1. Click More and select Backup and Recovery.

  1. After entering the backup interface, click Backup.

  1. Configure the Backup Name and Destination Datastore, check the Enable VSS and Full backup checkboxes and click OK to start the backup.