Backup Esxi Free

[RiacardoNascime]

Folks, I have some VMware machines and I need to make backups of them outside the host, the version used is for free ... I know that this version has some limitations ... does anyone know of any solution for me to do this? Thank you

[dbalcaraz]

Hello,

I recently replied in another thread, maybe you should check other threads before creating a new one :smileywink:

Anyway, for backing up VMs:

For VMs, Veeam or Altaro are great solutions. I think Veeam has no limits when choosing VMs to back up however with Altaro is limited to 2 VMs per host or something like that.

To save your ESXi configuration, you can do it by command line on the ESXi, more information: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2042141

[daphnissov]

If you have the ESXi free edition, you can't use any commercial edition (free or not) because the APIs necessary (VADP) are not unlocked. Basically your only option is something like ghettoVCB.

[a_p_]

What - according to the documentation - should work even with the free ESXi Hypervisor is VM Explorer.

You can download the free trial, which - after the trial period expires - will continue to work with limited features (i.e. as the "Free edition").

Virtual Machine (VM) Server Backup, Recovery & Replication for VMware and Hyper-V | Micro Focus

André

[gregsn]

Maybe Nakivo would be an option if Nakivo's known limitations when backing up VMs on ESXi Free Edition are acceptable for you:

Free ESXi Backup Limitations – NAKIVO Knowledge Base

[magicker]

this software works with free esxi versions and even had a free version with some limits.

https://33hops.com/xsibackup-vmware-esxi-backup.html

[Homdax]

Been looking att all above tools and not comfy with any of them. That last you posted, magicker, wont get copied to the machine... wget does not seem to "get" anything... did you get it to work?

[benknown]

AOMEI Cyber Backup works with ESXI free edition https://www.ubackup.com/enterprise/download.html

And the free version of AOMEI Cyber Backup is still geninely useful too.