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Published inJun 2016
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781785283468
Edition2nd Edition
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Hersey Cartwright
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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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Using VMware Data Protection to back up virtual machines

Virtual machine backups using the VDP appliance are created and managed using the vSphere Web Client connected to vCenter, where the VDP appliance has been registered.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to create a backup job in order to protect virtual machines using VDP:

  1. In the vSphere Web Client, select vSphere Data Protection and connect to the VDP appliance.

  2. Select the Backup tab, and from the Backup job actions menu, select New, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Select the type of backup to be performed—either Full Image, which is a complete backup of the virtual machine, including all the disks and configurations—or Individual Disks, which are individual virtual machine disks (VMDKs), as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Select the backup targets. Targets can be vCenter inventory objects, including datacenters, clusters, resource pools, or individual virtual machines. The following screenshot illustrates the selection...

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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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kim bottu

Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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