Yes, you can perform hot backups of virtual machines running on VMware ESXi Free Hypervisor hosts.
Free Hypervisor hosts doesn’t support VDDK libraries, so you can only perform full backups of the disks, always with thick provisioning. Uranium allows to reduce the space occupation enabling the compression.
Feature available in the Pro Virtual and Gold editions.
According to the definition provided by the official VMware website, Quiescing is a process where the data that are present on the disk...
Technical support, Virtual machine backupThe General Options of the backup set only affect the copies performed inside the Common Destinations. So, you must enable...
Technical support, Files and folders backup, Drive image backup, Virtual machine backup, Database backup, Backup to tape, Exchange backupThe use of the VDDK APIs is allowed by VMware only with ESXi licensed hosts. VDDK libraries allow: better backup...
Technical support, Virtual machine backup