Backup and restoration of vSphere's virtual machine on Cisco UCS
In this recipe, we will learn how to backup and restore a VMware vSphere's virtual machine into a Cisco UCS Server.
Getting ready
Assume that you have already installed VMware vSphere host on a Cisco UCS B200 M3 and some virtual machines are running on this vSphere host. The VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.5 Virtual Appliance is installed on the other VMware vSphere host. Each VMware vSphere is managed by the same VMware vCenter and can access the same SAN shared ESXi Datastore. The following diagram shows the details:
How to do it…
In this recipe, we will learn how to deploy a VDP. A VMware vSphere Data Protection is a backup and recovery solution. It is fully integrated with the VMware vCenter Server and VMware vSphere Web Client, providing a disk-based backup of virtual machines. The VMware vSphere Data Protection is based on the industry-leading EMC Avamar backup and recovery solution.
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