Overview
The article guides to backup VMware vCenter system to save the configuration for the management system
The article was done on VMware vCenter 7.0
How to configure
- Access to vCenter Server Management using link https://vCenter_IP_address:5480
- Login to vCenter Server Management by root account
- Go to Backup -> Choose CONFIGURE
- In Backup location: Enter the path to access the storage
- In Backup server credentials: Enter user name and password of backup account
- In Schedule: Choose backup time schedule
- In Encrypt backup: Enter backup file encryption’s password
- In DB Health Check: Choose Disable
- In Number of backups to retain: Choose the number of backup file to keep
- In Data: Choose Stats, Events, and Tasks
- Click CREATE
- The backup process
- Check the vCenter backup file
- If there is error
Invalid vCenter Server Status: All required services are not up! Stopped services: ‘vmware-postgres-archiver’.
=> Go to Services -> Find and choose the services that was stopped -> Click START
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