Most established IT departments are using backup tools from the storage or backup vendor to protect the datastores where the VM's are stored. This will make the recovery of the base vSphere environment faster and easier. The central piece of vCenter is the vCenter database. If there is a total loss of database you will lose all your configuration information of vSphere, including the configuration specific to View (for examples, users, folders, and many more). Another important item to understand is that even if you rebuild your vCenter using the same folder and resource pool names, your View environment will not reconnect and use the new vCenter. The reason is that each object in vSphere has what is called a Managed object Reference (MoRef) and they are stored in the vSphere database. View uses the MoRef information to talk to vCenter. As View and vSphere rely on each other, making a backup of your View environment without backing up your vSphere environment doesn't make...