Albert Widjaja
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Backing up ESXi server settings before upgrade ?
Hi All,
Can anyone here please share some steps or way to backup VMware ESXi 5.1 server setting ?
my VCenter and ESXi 5.1 license type is VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Plus
I need to upgrade it to ESXi 5.5 starting from the VCenter VM first which is quite easy to do.
Can anyone here please share some steps or way to backup VMware ESXi 5.1 server setting ?
my VCenter and ESXi 5.1 license type is VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Plus
I need to upgrade it to ESXi 5.5 starting from the VCenter VM first which is quite easy to do.
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Correct - CLONE - ALWAYS before upgrade.
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Hi Andrew,
Quick clarification, if I need to rollback from failed ESXi 6.0u2 upgrade, How can I restore it back for the VI-cfg backup ?
Quick clarification, if I need to rollback from failed ESXi 6.0u2 upgrade, How can I restore it back for the VI-cfg backup ?
No requirement at all to restore your config.
Just use Rollback Mode, at startup of the ESXi OS, and that will rollback to previous version of ESXi and Config, before the upgrade.
Just use Rollback Mode, at startup of the ESXi OS, and that will rollback to previous version of ESXi and Config, before the upgrade.
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The VCenter is running as VM (same VM as the SQL server), so I can take clone for it before performing the upgrade.