Backup Vmware

Stratos Misinezis

I have a new customer that he has a rather old ESXI Server as well as a rather old machine hosting the VMware hypervisor. The question is, if the server dies and I have by no means a way to have and old esxi product version (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0.update01-623860.x86_64.iso) and buy a new fresh server and use one of the new versions of ESX Vsphere Hypervisor, let is say Version 6.7. Restore on new server and newer version of ESXI would it be able to restore?

Stratos Misinezis

In addition to this question, if restore is not possible on the hypervisor, would it be possible to restore to cloud?. (Backup is done locally to a nas)

Matt

↪Stratos Misinezis

I'm afraid that it will not be possible, please refer to this article: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/559000
This version is simply not backwards compatible.

Regarding your second question:
You can of course restore that backup to the cloud.

Stratos Misinezis

↪Matt

What I saying in the post is that the customer has ESXI 5.0 and if something happened to server, since the client has no media (ESXI 5.0) and a spare server...in case of disaster the customer could buy a fresh server install newer trial version of ESXI let's say 6.5, restore the backups on the new hypervisor server and that would be all. Where is the backward compatibility needed?

Matt

↪Stratos Misinezis

Perhaps I misunderstood you, but if the VM backups are performed on 5.0 you most likely will encounter various compatibility issues during restore to 6.5.

David Gugick

↪Stratos Misinezis

I think Matt is saying that virtual machine images from a 5.0 backup would not be able to be restored to version 6.5 without a move to 5.5. The KB article shows the interoperability matrix between vSphere versions. But since VMware still provides 5.0+ downloads from their site, I don't see a reason to upgrade to 6.5 as a means for restore. Better off using the same version or 5.5 to maintain compatibility

Stratos Misinezis

I got this guys and thank you. So instead of doing an installation of 6.5 directly it is better to go to 5.5 first to maintain the compatibility.
BTW, customer has lost credentials for hiw vmware product and I am asking you if have seen a backwards way of retrieving details, by mean providing the ESXI Lic and get access by somehow to vmware downloads so could download the same version if available.

David Gugick

↪Stratos Misinezis

Assuming the product has been properly registered with VMware, it would be attached to their account. A simple reset of the password should do the trick if the login credentials were lost. If the customer does not have the product ID, they may be able to pull it from the running installation. Some options from the VMware site: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/456818 or here: https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-4-esxi-installable-vcenter/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vsphere.setupinstallable.doc_41/install/setting_up_esxi_4.0/t_access_the_esxi_4.0_license_key_from_the_vi_client.html

Backup Vmware

Welcome to MSP360 Forum!

Categories

More Discussions