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Step-by-step Installing Vinchin Backup & Recovery Software

In this blog, I’m installing Vinchin Backup & Recovery on VMware ESXi. Vinchin is a professional provider of data protection solutions for enterprises, offering Vinchin Backup & Recovery, an all-in-one backup software containing a series of data backup, instant recovery, and offsite DR solutions for private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud environments.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery

can be either installed on a physical server or on the hypervisor as a virtual machine by creating a new VM. Burn the downloaded iso image to a DVD disk or make a bootable USB drive; you can install the software.
To download Vinchin Backup & Recovery first, you can click here:

Then, we need to install the software on VMware EXSi.

1. Open the browser and the EXSi server interface and fill in user credentials.

2. Upload the iso image to the ESXi server

3. Click on“Datastore browser”.

4. If you haven’t uploaded the iso image, click on the upload button to the pixel file for uploading.

5. Create a new virtual machine.

6. Finish the settings in order:
Select the creation type; click “Next”.
Then the new VM’s name selects the Guest OS family
Select installation storage.
Customize settings: CPU, memory, hard disk, and disk provisioning under hard disk
Choose storage for a CD/DVD Drive.
Review and confirm the settings, then click “Finish”.

7. Power on the new virtual machine you created.

8. Click “Console” and “Open browser console”.
9. Recenter to start.

10. Set the installation destination.
Select the assigned virtual disk and click “Done”.
11. Set the network & host name.
Turn on the network adapter and change the host name. Click “Configure” to finish the network & host name.

12. Click “IPv4 Settings” and choose “Manual” as “Method”.

13. Add the valid addresses for “Address” “Netmask”” Gateway” and specify the DNS servers, click “Save”.

14. Click “Done” to finish.
15. Click “Begin Installation”.

16. The installation has completed, now click “Reboot”.

Note:

the software will perform some post-installation in the first reboot, so please do not power off the Vinchin backup server during the process. Otherwise, the installation may be incomplete.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery supports VMware vSphere ESXi 4. x–7.0 and simplifies their protection with Agentless and LAN-Free Backup. Rather than install an agent in the virtual machine, the software interacts with VMware ESXi to back up the data, significantly saving up the cost, minimizing the backup system’s effect on the production virtual machine, and ensuring better business continuity. Also, the Scheduled Automatic backup under assorted backup strategies– Incremental, Full and Differential Backup- is efficient and practical.
So, now we have the software, but how do we back up VMware with these incredible features?
Here’s how we back up VMware VMs with Vinchin software.

Now we have completed the software installation and backed up the VMware data successfully, we can start our data protection journey with Vinchin, yet still there are more puzzles to solve and explore, namely, Instant Recovery, Archive to Cloud, Offsite Backup Copy and etc.
The 60 days full-featured free trial is currently available, download and get more.

Watch our video below or on YouTube to learn:

Vinchin Backup & Recovery on VMware ESXi.

02/08/2023
How to Install Active Directory Windows Server Core 2022

This article will cover how to install Active Directory Windows Server Core 2022. To know what steps are required to use a Windows Server 2022 Core installation as a domain controller. To know more about Server 2022. We will try to run Active Directory services with Server 2022 Core edition. For the Installation of Server 2022 Core. Windows Server administrators were demoted to the command line and obtaining MMC consoles to work pointed to a Core Windows Server installation to configure, manage, and administrate a Core installation.

Windows Server Core Active Directory Installation

If you have installed Active Directory in the last several Windows Server versions. You already know this is an active directory domain services role that is installed and then configured. Installing a domain controller involves installing the role and configuring it on your Windows Server 2022 installations that you need to use as domain controllers in your organization.

Before installing a Windows Server 2022 Core installation as a domain controller, you need to know a few things.

Change Windows Server 2022 hostname
Assign a static IP address
Choose a domain name that will be used for Active Directory
A strong administrator password
Date and time

Windows Server 2022 Core Install Active Directory

To install Active Directory, we need to set your Server as per the recommended configuration for ADDC.

I already changed the server name. type hostname to check your system name.

Type ipconfig /all command to know about your server IP address.

Type the sconfig command.

To Assign a static IP address

Type 8 and then hit enter.

Check how many network adapters are available, type 1, and then press enter.

Type 1 and hit enter.

S for static IP address
Type the details and then press enter.

Set DNS server and then press enter.

Type 15 to exit.

Install Active Directory Windows Server Core Using PowerShell

Type PowerShell Command to start creating Domain Controller.

Type
Get-WindowsFeature

Type
Get-Windowsfeature | ? {$_.Name -LIKE “ad*”}

To install domain controller Windows Server Core 2022, type the below command.
install-windowsfeature AD-Domain-Services-IncludemanagementTools

Successfully installed Active directory domain services.

Configure Active Directory Windows Server 2022 Core

Enter the below command

import-Module ADDSDeployment

install-ADDSForest

You can enter Y

While installation active directory is going on you will see some warnings.

Once installation is done the server will restart automatically.
Check your AD server credentials, type your password, and then hit enter.

Now we have covered the installation of Active Directory on server 2022 core.
Now type 8 to change server DNS.

Type 1

Now you can see server DNS, it’s a loop address, you need to change it.

Install Active Directory Core Server 2022

Also Windows Admin Center will help you to install AD roles and features but to configure the active directory, we need to use PowerShell.
Click on the core server to install the active directory

In Windows Admin Center very easy to install the Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) role. After connecting to your server, scroll down, navigate to Roles & features and then install the ADDS role.

Installing active directory domain services role using Windows admin center
The wizard will prompt if you need to reboot automatically. Actually, after installing only the role, it won’t reboot. Click yes

If required, please reboot the server.

Active directory windows admin center extension installation
You will need to install the Active Directory extension. The Active Directory extension is required to administer Active Directory once the ADDS role is installed and configured.

02/08/2023