Comments on: Things That Make You Go Hmmmm – Veeam Backup Not Using Preferred Free ESXi APIs?

By: ESXi Backup Solution

ESXi Backup Solution — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:15:47 +0000

[...] backups with ESXi4 (free) have been discontinued by most vendors under request by VMware. Things That Make You Go Hmmmm – Veeam Backup Not Using Preferred Free ESXi APIs? | VM /ETC So its possible to still use the APIs and its possible for people to make their own, check out [...]

By: shrouded.net

shrouded.net — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:37:02 +0000

VMware: Protecting their turf or their customers?…

I think most of the people up in arms over VMware’s dealings with Veeam last month (the story broke here) are missing a very important piece of the puzzle. The folks at Palo Alto are looking out for their customers in an important way, and aren’t …

By: rbrambley

rbrambley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:16:18 +0000

jibeddari,

I guess you could, but if you started selling your solution to VMware ESXi customers not just VMware but AutoIT and AutoHotkey would probably start paying attention. I think AutoIT is no longer open source and I am not sure about AutoHotkey.

By: rbrambley

rbrambley — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:16:18 +0000

jibeddari,

By: jibeddari

jibeddari — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:10:22 +0000

You could actually build a similar setup with click-automation tools like AutoIT or AutoHotkey.

If someone did that and sold it as a backup solution, then what?

By: VeeamMeUp » Blog Archive » New Veeam Essentials Bundle

VeeamMeUp » Blog Archive » New Veeam Essentials Bundle — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:28:44 +0000

[...] Rich Brambley at VMETC again after Alex Barrett’s post [...]

By: rbrambley

rbrambley — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:31:15 +0000

Evil,

Great point. The only difference is Veeam is initiating a snap shot
and then deleting it during back up, but that seems trivial.

By: Evil

Evil — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:32:30 +0000

Thomas said: “What it looks like they did was use the APIs that are private APIs for how VMware can upload/download files to datastores via Browse Datastore. That is not a method that the private APIs where ever to be used and I imagine there are reasons VMware does not want to see that large amount of data going over a private API that was never intended for that amount of traffic.”

This comment is complete nonsense. I thought Datastore Browser was specifically designed for customers to be able to upload and download ISO and VMDK files to/from ESXi hosts' local storage. Do you know any other way? And Veeam used these APIs to do exactly the same thing (upload/download VMDKs).