HPE VM Explorer

[schoondoggy]

Anyone played with the free version for backing up VM's?

https://www.trilead.com/editions/

[buzzinh]

After seeing this post I have given it a try. I managed to get a VM backed up from my ESXi 5.5 host (free licence) and the restored that vm to the same host. Worked well!

 

A lot of the functionality is locked out from free version though so everything is manual e.g. you cant create schedules for backups.

 

I think it looks and feels nice but Id never afford it for home use.

[jmwills]

Well, if it's a Windows server with it's own backup mechanism, I've never really seen the need to a specific VM backup product.

[GotNoTime]

Well, if it's a Windows server with it's own backup mechanism, I've never really seen the need to a specific VM backup product.

Your OS level backup won't preserve the configuration of the VM container itself which may be very complicated with clustering, resource reservations, shared/remote storage, multiple network interfaces etc... If you just have a simple configuration with a single locally stored disk and a single connection to the only VM network interface then that obviously isn't a big deal to lose.

[artiom]

I am using hvbackup - always works perfectly (basically it just it takes a snapshot of the VM and packs it in a 7z archive) - easy to explore and easy to restore.

[jmwills]

Your OS level backup won't preserve the configuration of the VM container itself which may be very complicated with clustering, resource reservations, shared/remote storage, multiple network interfaces etc... If you just have a simple configuration with a single locally stored disk and a single connection to the only VM network interface then that obviously isn't a big deal to lose.

True enough, but the host can backup those VM Config files.