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May 8th, 2020 06:00

Avamar protection for VMware Photon OS?

Hello community!

The Support site and Google both fail me. Does anyone know for sure if the Avamar Linux client will work (better yet: is supported) to protect a vCenter running on VMware's Photon OS? The only KBA (541474) I found that even mentions Photon just says that root user isn't set up by default. There isn't anything that says it's a supported version of Linux or that the Avamar client will work.

If it is supported, which client package is required? RedHat, SuSE, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu? I didn't find anything on VMware's site that said which version it was based on. 

We're running Avamar 19.1 integrated with IDPA 2.5 - vCenter 6.7

Many thanks for your help!

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June 16th, 2020 03:00

I guess you are trying to backup your vCenters. There's a dedicated procedure for snapshoting and recovering the vcenters in the Avamar vmware integration guide.
Backup : make a separate policy and schedule for all your vcenters.
Recovery : depending if you are in HA or not, the procedure change (dismantle HA, recover vcenter, then recreate the HA).

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