Backup VM's to USB drive for restoration at another site

[mcrampton]

Hi, I think this should be possible with Veeam, but not sure of the exact process. I have to get 4 VM's backed up out of our environment to a USB drive so that we can provide them to a partner company for them to restore into their ESXi environment and use. I don't believe they have Veeam.

I currently back up to an NFS share off a Windows NAS. I can connect the USB drive to this NAS, but I'm not sure how to proceed from there.

Or am I better off to just power down the VM's and download the VMDK's then manually copy to USB?

[veremin]

If you're after one time backup, I recommend you taking a look at VeeamZIP functionality. The backup process can be started immediately, and the given VMs can be backed up to whatever location you specify: be it local disk or network share. Be aware to place extract.exe utility (going with every product installation) along with resulting .vbk file, so that, the partner company can restore VMs without need of installing full product version.

Thanks.