Hi,
thought someone had better suggestions out there. hence posting this to vmware community
We have many private virtual platforms for various customers with 1 or more esxi hosts managed by their own vCenter servers. We running vCenter on Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL server 2008 R2 express edition local to VC. All our vCenter and Esxi host is running 5.0 Update 2.
We have few backup options;
1) Backup virtual machine with sql databases using backup products (VEEAM, eVault etc)
2) Snapshot virtual machines but vCenter being the core for snapshot to work, not sure how helpful this would be if OS is corrupted.
3) Clone VC and keep a copy as standby.
Any suggestions??