With the growth of VMware ecosystem with components such as VSAN and NSX, vCenter Server has become a critical component of vSphere environment. Therefore, VMware has provided a simple way to backup vCenter Server appliance as needed and according to the BCP guidelines of the institution. vCenter Server Appliance supports file-based backup over protocols such as FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SFTP, NFS, and SMB. We need to provide a remote location as backup destination and VCSA does not retain any backups locally. So let’s start the configuration. I am using an FTP endpoint as a backup location. First, we need to log into the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface. Then,…
