'Full ESXi Support'

[DougBaer]

Does Backup and Replication support ESXi as a target for restores?

[DougBaer]

I believe I found this in the manual:

"You can restore a VM to the ESX server of the same or later version than the server on
which the backup was created. For instance, if you created a backup of a VM running on
ESX 3.0, you can restore this VM to ESX 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2 and 3.5 or ESXi."

I'm new here and I just wanted to make sure I'm interpreting this correctly.

[Gostev]

Hello, yes - ESXi is supported both for backups and restores.

[DougBaer]

Excellent. Thanks for the quick reply.

[neo_italy]

>Hello, yes - ESXi is supported both for backups and restores.

And for replication?

Thanks

[Vitaliy S.]

Luix,

Yes, it is also supported with the come out of Veeam Backup and Replication 4.1

[antivir]

Luix,

Yes, it is also supported with the come out of Veeam Backup and Replication 4.1

What is the date of that release?

[Vitaliy S.]

Andrew,

It is going to be released today

[leoli]

That's a good news. But the bad news is it don't have trial key for support ESXi. I get the following message when I use trial key in Veeam backup.

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Checking the license for the source host "localhost.localdomain"
Your Veeam Backup license does not allow processing of free ESXi.
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[Vitaliy S.]

Leoli,

This happens because you've got free version of ESXi, which is not supported, only paid (licensed) versions are supported.

[leoli]

Dear Vitaliy,

But Gostev said "yes - ESXi is supported both for backups and restores. " in previous reply.

[TrevorBell]

Hi

esxi is supported backup and restores but only if you have the licensed version is esxi , the free version is not supported at all.

Does that explain it better?

[leoli]

Oh...I see. I don't know ESXi has licensed version. Thanks for your information.

[Gostev]

Licensed ESX servers is basically how VMware makes all of their revenue
Free ESXi in reality is nothing but a "demo" version with significant limitations.