Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual (Page 4)

VMware Virtual Machine Protection
4 October 2008
Planning your backup and recovery procedures for an ESX Server system, you should identify the
items that need to be addressed for recovery in your environment before a recovery is required.
Typically, with VMware‟s Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3), the major components that need to be
considered for backup are (see Figure 1- VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 ESX Architecture):
Virtual disks
Virtual machine configuration files
The configuration of the ESX Server system itself
VMWARE ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
Figure 1. VMware Virtual Infrastructure (ESX) 3 Architecture