About Creating a VMware QuickSpin Backup Set
VMware QuickSpin allows you to back up VMware virtual machines frequently as well as restore in a matter of minutes.
VMware QuickSpin cannot back up to the cloud. if you need an off-site copy of the virtual machines you need a VMware Standard backup set in addition to a VMware QuickSpin set.
Best practices are to put QuickSpin backups on a different host than the one housing the virtual machines being backed up, but it is not a requirement for them to work. You should be able to run a VMware QuickSpin backup from any machine that can access and authenticate with the ESX/EXi host or vCenter machine managing the virtual machines you want to back up.
During the Backup
If the virtual machines' host is not already recognized, you need to add the IP address of the ESX/ESXi host or vCenter machine managing the virtual machines.
If the Backup Agent needs credentials to authenticate with the server you added, it prompts you for them. After the host/vCenter has been added, a list of virtual machines available to be backed up are displayed
For a virtual machine to be eligible for backups, it must meet the following requirements:
The UUID attribute must be enabled for the virtual machine you intend to back up.
The virtual machine must use only SCSI disks.
The virtual machine must not use dynamic disks.
For clarification, dynamic disks are excluded from being present at the guest operating system level; if you open Disk Management from within the guest OS and there are dynamic volumes present, they are not backed up.
Destination Host
The VMware QuickSpin backup replicates the source VM data to a standby VM on another host. You must select the Destination Host and the Datastore that host the recovery VMs. It is optional to designate a resource pool and VM folder; however, you must select None on the Recovery VM Destination page if you do not want these options.
When the backup runs, the recovery VM is updated so the backup/standby VM is always up to date as of the latest backup. Whatever has changed between the last backup and the current backup is then stored in the local storage that you selected.
A VM cannot be part of more than one VMware Standard backup set or more than one QuickSpin backup at a time. However, a VM can be part of a VMware Standard and a VMware QuickSpin backup set simultaneously.
VMware QuickSpin Licensing
A monthly license fee is charged on a per ESXi host basis when 1 or more VMs are backed up from that ESXi host. The license fee is the same whether you back up 1 VM or many VMs on that ESXi host. This license fee is incurred for each ESXi host in your inventory that has one or more VMs being backed up.