Few weeks ago I received from my sponsor PHD Virtual licenses to install and review the Backup and Replication v5.4.. after I installed this software in my vSphere 5 test lab I was exited how easy I can backup and restore virtual machines.

After installing the PHDVBA appliance, configured a static ip-address I installed the PHD Virtual Backup Console to start the configuration. The first startup the software discovered (subnet discover) the PHDVBA appliance,

Appliance and Backup Console configuration:

First I connected the software to my vCenter server, created the storage type as backup destination (in my case I used “Attached virtual disk”). If you chose this functionality you only need to add a new .vmdk file to the appliance:

After I added the 50 gb .vmdk file the appliance auto detect the new storage without rebooting.. nice!

Other backup destination options are:

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Sander Daems is founder and author of this blog and working as a Lead (Sr.) Consultant by UNICA ICT Solutions. Sander has over 15 years experience in IT, primary focus: virtualization and modern worksplace.

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