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  • 1.  vSAN datastore backups

    Posted Aug 14, 2023 10:18 AM

    Hello!!!

    I just wanted to find our if anyone knows if VMware has an official stance on the backing up of the entire vSAN datastore in the event of corruption or a failure of some sort or is the built-in redundancy enough protection? Should we implement a backup solution to backup all the vm's running on our vSAN datastores? We currently don't use stretched clustering. 

    thanks 



  • 2.  RE: vSAN datastore backups

    Posted Aug 14, 2023 10:56 AM

    You need to adopt some third-party backup like veeam / commvault or similar backup software. 



  • 3.  RE: vSAN datastore backups

    Posted Aug 29, 2023 11:58 AM

    Great thanks!!! We do have Veeam in place however we are just doing data backups. I'm trying to get an idea about entire vm backups. I believe that we should be backing up the entire vm in our production site. Which is what I want to take to our management. 



  • 4.  RE: vSAN datastore backups

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Aug 29, 2023 11:47 AM

    With ANY storage you should have a 3rd party solution to back up the data, not just with vSAN... with ALL of them, ALWAYS!



  • 5.  RE: vSAN datastore backups

    Posted Aug 29, 2023 12:00 PM

    T hanks 100% agree. Will see if I can convince my managers.