General issues for the backup servers.

So, I'm new in the world of VMware and have a few questions about having a configuration of spare warm in case something breaks down.

There are two main things I want to know...

1.

We have a Vmware box currently implemented with 2 VM on it (I did not)

upward). We would like to have a server of spare ready in case where that crashes,

but without spending too much money. Wouldn't be better to set up ESXi

on the wheel of relief and, in case of failure, use the images on hand

to bring them up, temporarily, or to have a server spare and just

take the disks on the server down and drop them

replacement part (assuming it wasn't a disk failure). Or the other of these works would be?

2.

Is it possible to take snapshots of machine non - VM and use then

images in VMware to save in a virtual environment until the

physical server is repaired? Just curious.

Advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.

1.

We have a Vmware box currently implemented with 2 VM on it (I did not)

upward). We would like to have a server of spare ready in case where that crashes,

but without spending too much money. Wouldn't be better to set up ESXi

on the wheel of relief and, in case of failure, use the images on hand

to bring them up, temporarily, or to have a server spare and just

take the disks on the server down and drop them

replacement part (assuming it wasn't a disk failure). Or the other of these works would be?

Your best bet would be to have to install ESXi on the other server and images of current virtual machines to run on your existing server that are taken periodically. I guess that the tone of the email, that you do not have an overabundance of funds to work with, before storage, shared clustered and snapshot based backups would be off.

If you rely on the possibility of recovering virtual machines among readers on the existing system, you may be in for a surprise.

2.

Is it possible to take snapshots of machine non - VM and use then

images in VMware to save in a virtual environment until the

physical server is repaired? Just curious.

Answer brief No..

Long answer, you can do one or two things that may not work. You can sometimes ghost physical systems and then you may be able to restore the system as a virtual machine image ghost. You might be able to restore a backup image to a virtual machine, and then fix it to a working state.

There are a number of options available and I'm sure that some other people will be piling on short time

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