VCB is all you need to backup and restore. Pretty sure it works with ESXi?
________________________________ From: Bill Songstad [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare tools I've been using ESXi 3.5 for about six months and I have run up on a need that is not covered in the free hypervisor. So, as any industrious sole might, I went to the VMware website to see what products might suit my needs. And Viola! There I discovered that the marketing folks at VMware are sadists probably hired from the microsoft licensing team. So what I am polling about here is this: What are the essential tools for managing VMware virtual servers? What I need is pretty simple. I just want to make backups of my servers that I can restore to a different host without shutting them down or at the very least by a script that I can run on Saturday nights. I don't necessarily need to have vmotion especially since the products that include it are more than my total server hardware budget. Are there less expensive tools from other publishers that I should check out? The VMware stuff is a little outside my budget as far as I can divine from their website. Any advice is appreciated, Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
