@joeschmuck In response to your submission I decided to dowload the current free version of XSiBackup
here . However in the table with the Features overview, only the DC edition is marked as comptabible with ESXi 7. Do you have a source that contradict that? Because that would be nice.
I found
this thread on the 33Hops forum but the last entry was from april 13 this year.
I have nothing, I expected them to provide it for free as they have in the past to use home users. I would not pay for the product and instead look for other free options for home use. If I were a business that is a different story.
So I just pulled out my second server that I used as a firewall, but it does have ESXi 6.7 installed, I just need to update it a little. I plan to update it to 7.0, probably not tonight, I want to test the hardware out a little bit to ensure it survived the move. Once I've updated it to 7.0, then I will give XSiBackups a try, see if the older version works, test the latest version as well. So my second server is a Supermicro A1SAM-2550F with 16GB RAM, a 128GB SSD as the boot device and two 500GB laptop hard drives as datastores. Very basic setup. And I did notice that it booted up very fast once the OS started to load. I very well may sell this machine to someone who wants just a good NAS, not a hard core VM running FreeNAS machine. The CPU just wouldn't cut it, but as a simple NAS, it would work great. But time to test the hardware, then get ESXi 7.0 installed.
P.S. I think the thread has taken a turn from the topic. Once I'm setup then I could start another thread to discuss ESXi 7.0, or anyone could, just stick a link here for us to follow.