Have a look at Veeam community edition. If you really can’t afford it, look at Proxmox. And it’s got Vmware API’s so we can do backup at the VM level, not at the OS level (I have a few VMs I cant even install Windows updates as it breaks the application on it, never mind the apps that backup software adds). If you have between 6 and 9 hosts, Realistically you have a need to buy the proper software, especially if you have shared storage and can enable the HA features, as well as backup and central management. Why You Need to Let Go and Move Forward. Because again and again they let you (...)