Question about possible scenario between acronis, vmware, synology

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Hello,

I was looking for a feature.

Is it possible to backup a virtual machine wich is inside a vmware esxi host, and restore it inside a synology virtual machine manager of course using acronis?

Thu, 11/18/2021 - 06:52
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Yes you can but its not straight forward. You need to create NFS share on your synology and mount to your VM directly or by adding datastore on host. Per my understanding you can only do file level recovery.

Tue, 11/23/2021 - 14:21
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Per file level is not enough in this case, but I will check with synology to figure out if it is possible to have the VM vritten from cloud to the Synology device, and then if it can handle it somehow. Thank you very much.

Thu, 12/02/2021 - 09:00
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If I perform a virtual machine backup, of the whole machine, do I get a

  • VMDK (VMware Virtual Machine Disk)

file?

according to this:

kb.synology.com / en-uk / DSM / tutorial / How_to_turn_physical_OS_into_virtual_machines

I would be able to restore it.

Thu, 12/02/2021 - 09:05
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VMDK is file extension of vmware virtual machine's disk AND acronis backup file extension is .tib or .tibx. If you do VM level backup of your virtual machine it will be saved on NAS as .tib or .tibx. 

You can use your synology as iSCSI by creating a LUN but that will be mounted over software iscsi initiator to your esxi host. This will be another datastore in VMFS.

If you want to get vmdk then browse the datastore and download to a local machine or to NAS

Thu, 12/02/2021 - 18:07