vmProtect 7 best install option for VMware vSphere Essentials?
Getting ready to deploy vmProtect and wanted to know what installation method would be best for a VMware Essentials environment? Knowing that Essentials lacks the vMotion feature would it make sense to install vmProtect as a Virtual Appliance?
If I were to go the appliance route what would my options be if I were to lose the ESXi host the vmProtect appliance was running on? Would it be possible to do a bare metal restore of the ESX host and reinstall the vmProtect appliance to then recover the VM backups if stored on a separate network drive?
Am I asking for trouble in this scenario or would it make more sense to install vmProtect as a windows agent on a separate physical host outside of my vSphere environment?

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"Bare Metal Recovery supports only VMware ESXi version 4.1 and 5.0, and does not support ESX."
Just make sure you take note of that.
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gavin d wrote:"Bare Metal Recovery supports only VMware ESXi version 4.1 and 5.0, and does not support ESX."
Just make sure you take note of that.
A small correction: It also supports ESXi 5.1 starting from vmProtect 8 Update 1 (build 8184)
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