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B&R 12, vSphere 8.2 : HUGE vCenter VM to backup
Hello,
After upgrading our vCenter appliance from 7.x to 8.x, in our hyperconverged vSAN cluster, we have to add the new vCenter VM in a backup job.
When adding it, it's showing that around 4+To will be backed up.
In vSphere, this vCenter appliance indeed is showing tons of disks, and I guess it's legit as it may need to "keep an eye" on all those disks or whatever checks.
But I highly doubt this all is needed to be backed up so what is the recommended way for this case?
Thank you
Nicolas
After upgrading our vCenter appliance from 7.x to 8.x, in our hyperconverged vSAN cluster, we have to add the new vCenter VM in a backup job.
When adding it, it's showing that around 4+To will be backed up.
In vSphere, this vCenter appliance indeed is showing tons of disks, and I guess it's legit as it may need to "keep an eye" on all those disks or whatever checks.
But I highly doubt this all is needed to be backed up so what is the recommended way for this case?
Thank you
Nicolas
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Re: B&R 12, vSphere 8.2 : HUGE vCenter VM to backup
Personally I don't back up the Vcenter VM and I seem to remember it also not being recommended by VMware to do so. I use a scheduled configuration backup of the Vcenter from the appliance itself to a FTP-Server on another VM, which then is backuped by Veeam. If the Vcenter should really be lost, I can just install a new appliance and restore the configuration from that backup.
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Re: B&R 12, vSphere 8.2 : HUGE vCenter VM to backup
Please check this one: https://www.veeam.com/kb2328
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Re: B&R 12, vSphere 8.2 : HUGE vCenter VM to backup
Hello Daniel and Andreas,
Thank you for your answers.
As a matter of fact, we're already doing what Daniel is describing, and I was wondering whether an additional VM backup was recommended.
Well, you're reassuring me so that's fine.
Thank you.
Nicolas
Thank you for your answers.
As a matter of fact, we're already doing what Daniel is describing, and I was wondering whether an additional VM backup was recommended.
Well, you're reassuring me so that's fine.
Thank you.
Nicolas
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Re: B&R 12, vSphere 8.2 : HUGE vCenter VM to backup
There is a bug in the vCenter 8 migrate/upgrade for me resulting in a vCenter VM with 4.2 Tb storage allocated.
See here for details https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78914
To get ik back in the normal size, i made a backup in the vCenter console.
And then used the vcenter deployment app to restore vCenter with a backup.
You have to edit the backup-metadata.json file from your backup to match the new disk sizes:
"SizeInfo": {
"memory": 14,
"lv_root_0": 48,
"imagebuilder": 10,
"dblog": 15,
"archive": 50,
"autodeploy": 10,
"log": 10,
"seat": 10,
"swap1": 25,
"updatemgr": 100,
"vtsdblog": 5,
"lifecycle": 100,
"core": 25,
"netdump": 1,
"vtsdb": 10,
"db": 10,
"lv_lvm_snapshot": 150,
See here for details https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78914
To get ik back in the normal size, i made a backup in the vCenter console.
And then used the vcenter deployment app to restore vCenter with a backup.
You have to edit the backup-metadata.json file from your backup to match the new disk sizes:
"SizeInfo": {
"memory": 14,
"lv_root_0": 48,
"imagebuilder": 10,
"dblog": 15,
"archive": 50,
"autodeploy": 10,
"log": 10,
"seat": 10,
"swap1": 25,
"updatemgr": 100,
"vtsdblog": 5,
"lifecycle": 100,
"core": 25,
"netdump": 1,
"vtsdb": 10,
"db": 10,
"lv_lvm_snapshot": 150,
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