Backing up virtual machines in a ©VMWare ©ESXi host
Backing up virtual machines in a ©VMWare ©ESXi host ©VMWare ©vSphere is still the most advanced virtualization technology available in 2020, it outperforms its competitors by two digit figures in every aspect, that's why most people choose it as their virtualization software. Nonetheless, using ©ESXi as your hypervisor has some drawbacks in regards to other virtualization technologies, as ©VMWare ©vSphere is a propietary solution that locks some of the hypervisor OS features. One of the key aspects when it comes to use ©ESXi , in its free locked down version in production is the impossibility to use the built-in mechanisms to perform backups of your VMs, unless you license the software and pay the corresponding amount. Some solutions came up along the years to cover this need, most of them were simple scripts that would just copy the virtual machines' virtual disks to some local datastore. This is really helpful, but just allows to keep some limited number of ...