Now VCSA 6.5 is coming with inbuilt backup option. We can take backup directly from VCSA appliance manager portal, backup will include your PSC as well. If you want to take daily backup or weekly backups, we can automate this backup jobs with help of scripts. Generally FTP server used for backup repository I am in my VCSA appliance manager portal, it’s running on VCSA 6.5 with an embedded PSC. Click on “Backup” button. Enter your backup details:- Select Protocol : I am using FTP ( FTP,FTPS,HTTP,HTTPS,SCP protocols are available) Select Location: Here FTP server and share location. Port: 21 Enter your user name and password for FTP share. If you want to encrypt your vCenter backup, select Encrypt Backup Data option. Next will be the most important thing, we have to provide password for our vCenter backup, you should keep this password safe. While restoring backup to new vCenter server we require this password, if you f...
