Backup and Restore VMware Virtual Machines
Phoenix Editions: 
Business Enterprise Elite
Business Enterprise Elite This section provides information on how you can configure Phoenix to backup and restore virtual machines in your environment. It describes Phoenix capabilities, Phoenix configuration, actions to backup and restore virtual machines, and monitoring activities.
- Introduction to Phoenix for VMware
- This section provides an introduction to Phoenix for VMware. It lists the Phoenix components, hardware and software prerequisites, support matrix, workflows for backup and restore activities.
- About Phoenix for VMware
- System requirements to backup virtual machines
- System requirements for agentless application-aware backups on VMware virtual machines
- Quick steps to set up Phoenix to back up virtual machines
- VMware virtual machine backup workflow
- Workflow of application-aware backups on VMware virtual machines
- VMware functionalities in Phoenix
- Limitations to VMware virtual machine backup
- Set up Phoenix for VMware
- This section provides you an overview of Phoenix backup proxy, software and hardware prerequisites, sizing considerations, backup proxy deployment and configuration procedures.
- About Phoenix backup proxy for VMware
- Prerequisites for VMware virtual mahines
- Download backup proxy and generate activation token
- Register a standalone ESXi
- Register vCenter using the desktop client
- Register vCenter using web client
- Register a VMware on AWS (VMC) setup
- Backup proxy load balancing
- Configure virtual machines for backup
- Automatically configure virtual machines for backup
- Upgrade backup proxy in your environment
- Restore Virtual Machines
- This guide provides information about how to perform restore of virtual machines in your virtual environment.
- About VMware virtual machine restore
- About restore of a Microsoft SQL Server database to a virtual machine from an application-aware backup
- Types of snapshots you can restore
- Restore VMware virtual machine to original location
- Restore VMware virtual machine to an alternate location
- Restore a VMware virtual disk
- File level restore (VMware)
- Restore Microsoft SQL Server databases on VMware virtual machines
- Exporting data from Phoenix Cloud using AWS Snowball Edge
- Manage Virtual Machines
- Provides topics on creating backup and retention policies, server groups, reconfiguring server for backup, and getting backup proxy version.
- About servers, virtual machines, administrative groups, and policies
- Manage backup policy
- Manage administrative groups
- Reconfigure virtual machines configured for backup
- Enable or disable backup on virtual machines
- View Phoenix backup proxy version
- Delete backup proxy
- Reconfigure backup proxy settings for standalone ESXi
- Reconfigure backup proxy settings for vCenter server
- Delete a virtual machine configured for backup
- Delete virtual machine snapshots
- Phoenix Management Console User Interface for VMware
- Lists and describes the various pages available on the Phoenix Management Console User Interface.
- Troubleshooting
- Describes common workarounds of issues that you might encounter while backing up or restoring virtual machines.
- Reference Articles
- Contains articles that you might want to read wile working with a VMware setup.
- Use the vCenterDetail utility
- Reactivate backup proxy
- Phoenix agent logs and configuration details
- Required vCenter or ESXi user permissions for backup and restore
- Transport modes
- Use the vmcontrol utility to enable CBT
- FAQs on application-aware processing on VMware virtual machines
- Auto configuration FAQs
- Manually backup a virtual machine