Month: August 2016

Background:

Follow-up to the previous post where we performed Virtual Machine back-ups by exporting the files individually. This time we’ll export the whole VM into an OVF file which can be imported directly into vCenter.

Prerequisites:

• Access to vCenter

Steps:

Log into vCenter with appropriate credentials read more

Background: If there’s a need to backup VMs or templates to external media, this can be done via the vCenter Web Client.

Steps:

Logon to the vCenter Web Client using the appropriate credentials.

Navigate to the Storage tab.

Select the datastore where your VM or template resides than the Manage tab. read more