Planning

This article will help you plan and configure backups for VMware environments.

Using Xopero ONE, you can protect multiple components of your IT infrastructure, including VMware environments.

See this article for general guidelines on creating effective backup plans. However, multi-environment backups include their own specific configuration options:

  1. For VMware environments, the communication method and data transfer to storages available in the Xopero ONE system are crucial. To use fast transport methods such as HotAdd, you need to deploy a virtual appliance. Otherwise, if local devices act as VMware backup workers, the backup data will be transferred over the LAN—first to the worker and then to the storages—which significantly increases the transfer time.

  2. VMware backups are created using system snapshots (for supported systems, this process is application-aware); additionally, VMware Tools must be installed.

💡 To test snapshots as required by Xopero ONE, create a snapshot in the following way:

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