vSAN Protection and Recovery provides a simple way to back up and restore VMs locally using vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA). It enables administrators to define groups of VMs along with the backup/snapshot schedule and retention times. These are crash-consistent backups that can be restored using the vSphere Client even if the VMs have been removed from inventory. Perhaps best of all is that this functionality is included with your VCF 9 license.
I plan on writing a series of blog articles about vSAN Protection and Recovery. This first article summarizes the deployment of the Protection and Recovery virtual appliance that enables this functionality. If you would like to read more about the solution itself, see the articles below.
