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You can take backup and restore the configuration on the same esxi host as recommended. However if you are reinstalling, you can use force option to restore it<br />
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Note: When restoring configuration data, the build number of the host must match the build number of the host on backup file and UUID (can be obtained using the command &quot;esxcfg-info -u&quot;) of the host should match the UUID of the host on backup file. Use the -f option (force) to override the UUID mismatch<br />
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<a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2042141" rel="ugc nofollow">https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2042141</a>&nbsp; use this kb as reference
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You can take backup and restore the configuration on the same esxi host as recommended. However if you are reinstalling, you can use force option to restore it

Note: When restoring configuration data, the build number of the host must match the build number of the host on backup file and UUID (can be obtained using the command "esxcfg-info -u") of the host should match the UUID of the host on backup file. Use the -f option (force) to override the UUID mismatch

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2042141 [https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2042141]  use this kb as reference

A lack of information provides a lack of a decent solution.

Alex

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Excellent, thank you as always gents :-)
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No problems, glad to help you out with your question. Have a good day.
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No problems, glad to help you out with your question. Have a good day.

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OK,<br />
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So from my previous question trying to restore to an ESXi host without the same build, I now have this issue.<br />
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I downloaded the iso from VMware, now I look at the hosts and each has the right revision, however <br />
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and <br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2018/08_w35/1378673/2018-08-30-11_45_21-Window.png" target="_blank" title="2018-08-30-11_45_21-Window.png (6 KB)"><img alt="2018-08-30-11_45_21-Window.png" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 508px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2018/08_w35/1378673/2018-08-30-11_45_21-Window.png" /></a><br />
Does this mean I can restore the config from one box to the other without issue now?
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2018-08-30-11_44_29-Window.png

2018-08-30-11_45_21-Window.png

OK,

So from my previous question trying to restore to an ESXi host without the same build, I now have this issue.

I downloaded the iso from VMware, now I look at the hosts and each has the right revision, however 



and 



Does this mean I can restore the config from one box to the other without issue now?

ESXi revision numbers confirmation

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.