Hi;
I have not used FreeNAS before but have installed and configured it as best I can. The issue I'm trying to figure out is how do I backup a Windows VM hosted on a separate VMWare ESXi 6.5 server to the FreeNAS? This is a non-production environment, just a test lab I use to play ...
Here's a summary of my test lab config:
VMWare ESXi 6.5 Server - 10.0.0.205
- hosts two Windows Server VMs (approx 400GB disk space used)
- this is the free version of ESXi 6.5
FreeNAS - 10.0.0.100
- FreeNAS 11.0-U2 (latest)
- configured with a single 4TB drive
I want to regularly (daily) backup the two Windows VMs hosted on the VMWare server (10.0.0.205) to the FreeNAS (10.0.0.100) for system recovery. Should the VMWare server go up in flames, I want to be able to easily recover the backed up VMs from the FreeNAS to another VMWare server.
I did lots of googling and forum searches and tried many things without success so if anyone could put together a simple step-by-step "How To" on how to accomplish this, I would be grateful!
Thanks in advance,
L
I have not used FreeNAS before but have installed and configured it as best I can. The issue I'm trying to figure out is how do I backup a Windows VM hosted on a separate VMWare ESXi 6.5 server to the FreeNAS? This is a non-production environment, just a test lab I use to play ...
Here's a summary of my test lab config:
VMWare ESXi 6.5 Server - 10.0.0.205
- hosts two Windows Server VMs (approx 400GB disk space used)
- this is the free version of ESXi 6.5
FreeNAS - 10.0.0.100
- FreeNAS 11.0-U2 (latest)
- configured with a single 4TB drive
I want to regularly (daily) backup the two Windows VMs hosted on the VMWare server (10.0.0.205) to the FreeNAS (10.0.0.100) for system recovery. Should the VMWare server go up in flames, I want to be able to easily recover the backed up VMs from the FreeNAS to another VMWare server.
I did lots of googling and forum searches and tried many things without success so if anyone could put together a simple step-by-step "How To" on how to accomplish this, I would be grateful!
Thanks in advance,
L