drwhatley Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 The free version of Veeam doesn't support ESXi free edition. Is there a free solution out there that will work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drashna Jaelre Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Well, what are you using for the VMs? If you're using just Windows in the VMs, couldn't you just use the built in backup feature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
direktorn Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 As far as I can remember it does, but you need to power off the VM. It's not really veeams "fault" as the Backup APIs are not available in the free version of ESX. If you need to do backup of powered on vms you really can only do that from within the VM itself (if your using ESXi and not V-Sphere) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drashna Jaelre Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 And that's what I meant, the windows stuff.... Or if you have WHS running in a VM.... Also, IIRC, HyperV can take online snapshots... So HyperV Server 2012 may be a good option... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
direktorn Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 , HyperV can take online snapshots... So HyperV Server 2012 may be a good option... Of course ESXi can take snapshots, been there since, well when vmware launched their first hypervisor 200 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timekills Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 And that's what I meant, the windows stuff.... Or if you have WHS running in a VM.... Also, IIRC, HyperV can take online snapshots... So HyperV Server 2012 may be a good option... Of course ESXi can take snapshots, been there since, well when vmware launched their first hypervisor 200 years ago. Not that snapshots are a backup. But Veeam does work extremely well with Hyper-V as well. Much easier/faster than even Server 2012's backup as it can do it while the VMs are active. The backup built into the OS is a "traditional" backup rather than the entire VM package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Like TK said, Snapshots are not backups and need to be kept for only a short period of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technogod Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 (edited) FYI Veeam doesn't support Windows 8 Pro. I jumped through all kinds of hoops to load it. Enabled the Administrative account. Got all the way to the last step and it said my OS wasn't supported. It should have checked that when I installed it. I use Windows 8 Pro with WHS 2011 running in a VM. WHS Server Backup is able to backup the VM. Edited December 21, 2013 by Technogod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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