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Protect VMware workloads with BlueXP backup and recovery overview

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Protect your VMware VMs and datastores with BlueXP backup and recovery. BlueXP backup and recovery provides fast, space-efficient, crash-consistent, and VM-consistent backup and restore operations. You can back up VMware workloads to Amazon Web Services S3 or StorageGRID and restore VMware workloads back to an on-premises VMware host.

Note This version of BlueXP backup and recovery supports only VMware vCenter and does not discover vVols or VMs on vVols.

Use BlueXP backup and recovery to implement a 3-2-1 strategy, where you have 3 copies of your source data on 2 different storage systems along with 1 copy in the cloud. The benefits of the 3-2-1 approach include:

  • Multiple data copies provide multi-layer protection against both internal (insider) and external cybersecurity threats.

  • Multiple media types ensure failover viability in the case of physical or logical failure of one media type.

  • The onsite copy facilitates quick restores, with the offsite copies available just in case the onsite copy is compromised.

NOTE To switch to and from BlueXP backup and recovery UI versions, refer to Switch to the previous BlueXP backup and recovery UI.

You can use BlueXP backup and recovery to perform the following tasks related to VMware workloads: