I have purchased 'Essentials' and I have only two Vm's but my most important vm is a Windows 2003 Server as the FSMO Domain controller that I want to backup.
I am new to Vmware and have tested out various free backup software/s (Trilead the best and easiest to understand and use) but wanted to know best practice on where this software is installed (currently on my laptop-can see Vmware) obviously don't want to waste a vm on the host to configure the software there, so for DR is it best to install on a client pc (i.e. mine) and then to be backed up to a NAS? Do backups work like in a normal environment as scheduled or does the vm need to be shutdown?
If this 'master' DC would go down on the host I have a feeling that the backup would not synch correctly with my 'backup' DC , what are your thoughts?