27. Back up virtual machines on VMware servers to Azure (top)

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Configure your Azure backup server to protect your VMware server workloads. I have installed the Azure backup server in the previous article, and the Azure backup server can back up or help protect VMware VCenter Server versions 6.5, 6.0, and 5.5.

In order to show you the backup storage space for a workload-aware type (Azure backup server), I then modified the preferred data source type for M and n disks as follows:

So here I have a set of environments for VMware ESXI 6.0+vcenter 6.0 (VCSA Linux Vcenter) with a filesrv file server business virtual machine.

Next, open the Vcenter Management Web Console in the AZUREBACKUPSRV server (Azure Backup server) to download the root certificate that was imported into vcenter

Save the file to a location on the Azure backup server where I saved it to the desktop. When you save the file, add the file name extension. zip

Right-click Root.zip on the desktop and select Extract all to extract the content.

Extraction

The. zip file extracts its contents into a folder named "Certs". There are two types of files in the Certs folder. The root certificate file extension begins with a numbered sequence similar to. 0 and. 1. The CRL file extension begins with a sequence similar to. r0 or. R1. The CRL file is associated with the certificate.

Change the root certificate's extension to. crt. When asked if you are sure you want to change the extension, click Yes or OK. Otherwise, the expected functionality of the file is changed. The file icon changes to the icon that represents the root certificate

Right-click the root certificate and select "Install Certificate" in the pop-up menu

Select Local computer, next

Select "Put all certificates in the following store"-Trusted Root Certification authorities

Next, until complete, the import succeeds.

Turn off IE to re-access the vcenter domain name to see no more certificate errors

If you still want to report a certificate error, you can disable the Secure communication protocol, and if you do not need the HTTPS protocol, you can disable HTTPS by following these steps. To disable the default behavior, create a registry key that ignores the default behavior

Copy and paste the following text into a. txt file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\vmware]

"Ignorecertificatevalidation" =dword:00000001

Save the file to the Azure backup server computer. Use Disablesecureauthentication.reg as the file name

Double-click the file Activation registry key

27. Back up virtual machines on VMware servers to Azure (top)