Description

This section guides administrators in performing manual backups of virtual machines.

Precautions

1. The virtual machine can be backed up when powered on or off.
2. The first backup is a full backup, and the backup to the same datastore is an incremental backup.
3. When the backup repository is virtual storage, FC storage, or iSCSI storage, it supports quickly pulling up the virtual machine when restoring the backup.
4. After upgrading from HCI5.0 to HCI5.3, trigger the backup for the first time, the old backup will be moved to the recycle bin, and a new backup will be made. After 30 days, the old backups in the Recycle Bin will be cleared, but new backups will be available. If there is a need for long-term retention of old backups, contact technical support for processing.

Prerequisites

A backup datastore has been configured (a third-party backup repository is recommended).

Steps

1. Navigate to Compute, move to the selected VM and click More >  Back Up.

2. Enter the Create Backup page, input a custom description, and select the Destination Datastore.

3. Click OK, the virtual machine enters the backup state, and the virtual machine completes the backup after a few minutes.
4. You can view the created backup information in the VM Backup&CDP Policy section.

5. Backup merge speed limit: Enter the backup merge speed limit configuration page from the settings option in Reliability > Scheduled Backup/CDP > Settings.

6. The maximum number of concurrent backup and merge speed limits can be configured to 16, and the maximum speed limit can be up to 300MB/S.