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If I use Set_VMHostFirmware to restore the previous backup configuration of VMware server, will it re-install everything, including the &nbsp;virtual switch ?
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Yes, BUT make sure the version of ESXi is identical!<br />
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Restoring to a different build version is NOT SUPPORTED, and can cause issues.
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> If I use Set_VMHostFirmware to restore the previous backup configuration of VMware server, will it re-install everything, including the  virtual switch ?


Yes, BUT make sure the version of ESXi is identical!

Restoring to a different build version is NOT SUPPORTED, and can cause issues.

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how about version but restoring from lower update to higher one ?
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how about version but restoring from lower update to higher one ?

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If I use Set_VMHostFirmware to restore the previous backup configuration of VMware server, will it re-install everything, including the &nbsp;virtual switch ?<br />
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Thx
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If I use Set_VMHostFirmware to restore the previous backup configuration of VMware server, will it re-install everything, including the  virtual switch ?

Thx

Reinstall Vmware

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.