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vCenter SQL maintenance plan As vCenter becomes more integrated with a number of products and services, the need to keep it protected from failure becomes greater. Often times I am asked on ways to protect vCenter, but in my opinion there are two pieces to this question: the application (vCenter Server) and the database. Protecting the application isn�t all that difficult � just using periodic clones can often be enough to solve this problem, or even a quick deployment of the application onto a blank template. To me, the more essential piece is the database. It contains a lot of information on the environment (including object annotations, which are often used by administrators to record important values). There are many solutions available to protect SQL databases, but often require additional 3rd party software (Red Gate, Veeam) or licensing (SQL Mirroring / Clustering). In my recent SQL database protection posts, I�m mostly focusing on the �free� methods to protect vCenter using wh...