Posted by on Aug 23 2017 in.Turns out the question of what backup solution to use to protect a home lab's VMs in a home lab comes up a lot here at TinkerTry, especially when a major new release of vSphere arrives on the scene. It's become such an important thing to consider for IT Pros working off the NFR code (non-time-bombed) code in their home labs, so much so that they might decide to hold off on upgrading until their backup solution is ready. The wait since the was rather short!

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Total game changer! AND they added S3 integration to top is all off for cheap off-site backups.If you want to do physical boxes, each one counts as 3 slots (aka 3 'VMs'). All the features are enabled, replication and backup copy!Edit:1 Workstation = 1 Instance1 Server = 3 Instances1 VM = 1 InstanceAny combination, but 10 Instances max.Also, object storage support (S3) is not a part of this edition.Womp womp:(.but you can still do a AWS storage gateway!.