@bishnitro said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:
Just want to confirm, so up to now Vsphere has no means of backing up the VM's live? I read that i can actually copy it when its powered off. or i maybe wrong. If not then Veeam, Altaro and Unitrends are my options. I will use the cost effective and easy to deploy solution.
Not exactly. Your problem is a lack of knowledge on how virtualization works. Yes, you can power off a VM and then copy the file(s) that represent the hard disk. But that is not a backup. There is more to a VM than that. You can recover from that, but not simply. That type of functionality exists in all hypervisors simply because they are hypervisors.
@nerdydad said in How to backup VMWare VMs?:
Correct. vSphere has no capabilities of backing up natively. Have to use some type of 3rd party software to back up the VMs. Unlike what you can do natively in KVM or XenServer.
KVM and XenServer do not, natively, have anything to fully manage backups either last time I looked.