VMware Backup Overview
Features:
- Ability to customize virtual machine selection
- Local or remote ESXi server or vCenter backup
- Block-level backup
- Compression and encryption
- Exclude disks, files, or folders
- Changed Block Tracking (CBT) support
- Item-level restore
- Restore VMware VMs to Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure VM
Supported for
- vSphere 6.0 or higher
vSphere 5.1 and 5.5 versions are no longer supported. You may try to use them at your own risk
Licensing
A VM Server license (contains 2 sockets) is required. If your virtual environment has more than 2 sockets, you need to buy additional VM Server Socket licenses to cover your requirements.