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Planning Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on VxRail
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Configure backups for SDDC Manager and NSX Manager

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Configure backups for SDDC Manager and NSX Manager

  • Regular backups of the management components ensure that you can keep your environment operational if a data loss or failure occurs. Both file-based backups and image-based backups are supported for SDDC Manager and NSX Manager. The default target for file-based backups of SDDC Manager and NSX Manager are their respective virtual appliances. With both management components, an external SFTP server can be configured to serve as a target for file-based backups.

    This figure shows file-based backups using an SFTP server.

    Figure 56.    File-based backups using SFTP

    File-based backups of SDDC Manager cannot be enabled until an external SFTP server is configured as the target device. Therefore, an external SFTP server is a pre-requisite for restoring SDDC Manager from file-based backups. With NSX Manager, file-based backups are stored on an SFTP location on the virtual appliance, and best practice dictates that an external SFTP server be provided instead for this purpose.

    Note: By default, VMware Cloud Foundation does not configure any file-based or image-based backup protection for the vCenter Servers.

    To enable file-based backups of SDDC Manager and NSX Manager:

    1. Deploy an SFTP server in the data center
    2. Configure folders for the SDDC Manager and NSX Manager backups
    3. Configure credentials (username and password) on the SFTP server with read and write access to the backup folders