Live VM backups from a VM – esXpress VBA
September 12th, 2007 | 
Author: You don’t have the budget for the required infrastructure of VCB backups? Try esXpress from PHD technologies. I mean literally, try their free 30 day, fully functioning, fully supported demo that can back up live VMs to a dedicated VMFS partition, an FTP server, or both! After the 30 days you can continue to perform daily full backups for FREE!
Once you install it on all your ESX hosts, you can configure the backups from a basic console GUI or integrated within the VI client connected to the VC2 server.
From esXpress.com:
esXpress v3 Features
- NEW Uses VMware recommended VBAs, Virtual Backup Appliances
- NEW Integrated with Virtual Infrastructure 3 client.
- NEW Control and monitor backups right from the VI3 client
- NEW VMware DRS aware and Vmotion compatible. VMs can be Vmotioned while backups are in progress
- NEW Backup target failover feature combined with VMware’s HA means NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE
- NEW Special One-Up backup mode
- NEW Skip Delta backup if a Virtual Machine has not changed
- NEW Virtual Backup Appliance. Offloads the processing of backups from the service console into the virtual space. Fast. Reliable. Scalable.
- NEW Multi-threaded processing of backups allows multiple simultaneous backups with minimal system impact
- NEW Multiple backup transports and targets; ftp, scp, iSCSI (VMFS), SAN (VMFS), local storage and more
- NEW Now with LZOP compression. Increase your backup speed by as much as 50%
- The ONLY ESX Backup solution that uses Patent Pending Intelligent Delta Technology
- The ONLY 256 Bit Encrypted ESX VMDK Backups solution
- esXpress will automatically backup ALL of your Virtual Machines every day with compression and optional encryption
- Each ESX host is autonomous and responsible for backing itself up. No Windows scheduler required, no cutting and pasting DOS commands
- No Centralized Windows GUI required. No Single Point of Failure.
- DOES NOT consume service console CPU, RAM or network. Will not interfere with VI Client, Web Access or VirtualCenter operation
- NO additional software or operating systems required
- NO dedicated physical servers
- esXpress is licensed per HOST not per CPU
- Live Backup Statistics
- Mass Auto Restore/Replication feature. One-to-Many. Complete Data Center Replication.
- Backup Archive Management feature
- Full Reporting with Email notifications
- Portable Self Extracting Delta Backups are restorable to VMware Server under Windows and Linux.
- Simple installation and setup
- Full Linux text menu available for all actions, including manual backups, restores and additional reporting.
- esXpress is fully scriptable for integration with other backup solutions and scripts
- Proven PHD Technology
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