Important: VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Backup

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I treat this as an important post as it affects a lot of design today when upgrading to vSphere 7.0 and as well as new deployment.

In the release of vSphere 7.0, there are a few things that are removed or deprecated.

To name a few obvious ones below:
  • External PSC (removed)
  • vCenter Server for Windows (removed)
  • vSphere Web Client (removed)
  • vCenter Server .next Image based backup (deprecated)
And yes, you read it correctly the last one. vCenter Server Image backup. Thanks to Michael White for pointing this out. I beg many of us did not read the release notes.

Here I am going to direct you to the release notes of vCenter Server 7.0 release notes.

Deprecation of Image-Based Backup and Restore Support for vCenter Server

Image-based backup and restore for vCenter Server is deprecated in vCenter Server 7.0 and will not be supported in a future vSphere release.

What the above statement in layman terms: the image-based backup is going to sunset in 7.0. Which means version 7.0 will be the last support version. Future vSphere release after 7.0, will not be supported.

This seems to be related to issue stated in KB that arise in version 6.7 and was pending a fixed. But apparently, it seems that VMware decide to do away with image backup support and use its own native backup. This maybe due to some corupption of data via image based backup.

For people who are doing design and planning, this is a very important point to note especially catering to Backup Restore and Disaster Recovery plans. Starting planning to use vCenter Server native backup to avoid future changes.


Update 28th May 2020
Apparently the release notes is now amended without stating the deprecated Image-based backup.

Update 12th May 2020
To clarify the above statement, image based backup will still be supported, but in the future release vSphere 7.x, or .next, this will not be supported.

Comments

saintdle said…
Hi, there is an important difference with some of these features you mentioned, some of these are removed entirely, not deprecated, which is the intent to remove support/feature/ability in the future.;

- External PSC - Removed - no longer available

- vCenter Server for Windows - Removed - no longer available

- vSphere Web Client - Removed - no longer available

- vCenter Server Image Backup - Deprecated - support is available, but this support will be removed in a future release.

https://veducate.co.uk/vcenter-7-0-image-based-backup-is-still-supported-but-wont-be-in-future-versions/

Regards

Dean
twitter.com/saintdle

May 11, 2020 at 6:26 PM
Sameer Sahasrabudhe said…
Thanks for the post.
So only VAMI based backup is supported, are there any changes around the VAMI based scheduled backup.
May 12, 2020 at 12:17 AM
Wee Kiong Tan said…
@sanitdle Corrected to remove the confusion between deprecated and removed.
September 24, 2020 at 2:26 PM
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