![]() ![]() GhettoVCB is available on Github, it's well documented and has great community support. It is a script that runs inside an ESXi shell and is able to utilize VMware snapshots to back up even running VMs by cloning them to a secondary location (e.g. ![]() The first option that I must mention here is William Lam's awesome GhettoVCB script. And best of all these are available for free themselves. Nevertheless there are several solutions available to back up VMs running on free ESXi. but unfortunately with the free ESXi license VMware has disabled some functionality that is important for efficient backups of VMs: VADP ( vStorage APIs for Data Protection) and CBT ( Changed Block Tracking) are the features that all modern software products for VM backups make use of. As soon as you have some sort of "production" workload running in VMs you will start thinking about how to protect them from data loss. VMware ESXi with the free license (also known as vSphere Hypervisor) is a great way to get started with server virtualization and run your own hypervisor at home or in small environments.
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