First, I find Storeware to be quite straightforward to install and use. I have a very small shop and no dedicated system admin, so I need to keep complexity to a minimum. I have a single licensed ESXi 8 server.

I do not use vCenter since I only have a single instance of ESXi. My only difficulty with the Storeware installation was at the page to enter the host credentials. It would not accept any entry I made when I selected ESXi as my host platform. The error message was "Something went wrong". The installation went fine once I changed my selection to vCenter and entered the information of the ESXi host.

The system has been ever since. I just thought I would share that info. Thanks for a backup solution that works very well.