Here we can browse out to the folder we want to set as the home directory for uploading files.įor the lab, I simply gave all permissions to the user – Read, Write, Delete, etc. If we click the Shared folders option we can click Add and set a directory as the home directory. We can click the Password box and set a password for our user. Note we can utilize groups here, however, we don’t have to as we simply need a user with permissions to connect to the server and write the files in the directory. We name our user that we want to be used with the vCenter server appliance backup. We need to add a user account we can use to authenticate to the Filezilla server from our VCSA appliance.

We setup our listening service on the server side along with credentials to authenticate and a target directory where our backups will actually be placed from our VMware VCSA appliance.īelow we have loaded Filezilla FTP server and we are looking at the general settings of configuring the server. While the process to configure a specific application may be different from vendor to vendor, the basic steps required are the same. For the purposes of the following lab, we are using the Filezilla FTP server loaded on a Windows server that provides the target connectivity to our backup process from our VMware VCSA appliance.

The first step to getting ready to perform a backup of our vCenter Server Appliance is to setup a server that can be used as the target for the HTTPS, HTTP, SCP, FTPS, or FTP backup connection from our VCSA appliance. Download Set up a Backup Server to Receive the Backups of vCenter Server Appliance

Filezilla ftp server setup guide