What a day again, and it’s actually not finished cause within a couple of minutes the VMworld Europe 2009 party will start. The VMTN Experts session was actually, in my opinion, pretty good today. We had way more people coming over that were asking questions or just came over to have a chat with one of the Experts! With the [...]

Veeam just released Backup 3.0 with ESXi(including the Free version) support: In addition to the ESXi backup through VCB that was introduced with version 2.0, Veeam Backup 3.0 now supports ESXi backup without VCB. Veeam Backup is the only VMware backup solution that lets you backup and restore virtual machines running on all existing editions of ESXi, including ESXi free. [...]

On the VMTN forum there’s a great topic on backing up your ESXi VM’s with a free solution. After a couple of pages of discussion and several solutions VMTN user lamw created a community document called “ghettoVCBni.sh – Free alternative for backing up VM’s for ESX 3.5+ and ESXi”. This document contains a script and a list file. The list [...]