Data and workloads protection is a fundamental aspect that every administrator must consider to ensure data availability and BC. In each design, the protection of the infrastructure is important for having all services available with a working strategy to quickly recover vSphere components in case of failure.
This chapter will explain how to perform the setup of the backup and restore process for the ESXi host as well as the vCSA, to reduce the time required by the restore process, minimizing the service outage. Without a backup strategy, in case of failures, you will have to install and configure each ESXi host or vCSA from scratch, a time-consuming activity that creates service disruption and an extra workload.
When hosts and vCenter Servers are protected, running a VM plays a fundamental role in the infrastructure since they provide all the services...