how to take full backup of VMware ESXi bare mental hypervisor ? because i need to install patches on VMware host .
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Dear All,
I need to install VMware critical patches on VMware ESXi host. For safety , how to backup entire VMware ESXi configuration. it is helps to restore in future if i have any issues on patch. kindly provide your support.
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How to back up ESXi host configuration (2042141)
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2042141 -
ESXi backup help to restore config on new VMware host hypervisor??
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@ghani said in how to take full backup of VMware ESXi bare mental hypervisor ? because i need to install patches on VMware host .:
ESXi backup help to restore config on new VMware host hypervisor??
Yes. That's what it does.
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At large scale people tend to use host profiles or some sort of state management so they can just restore configurations.
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Also note: ESXi has 2 boot banks so if one corrupts or doesn't install cleanly (to where it can't boot) it will roll back to the alternative one.
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ok i will check
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@storageninja said in how to take full backup of VMware ESXi bare mental hypervisor ? because i need to install patches on VMware host .:
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yes i know , that it recovery mode
