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#Schedule commands vcenter 6.5 how to
#Schedule commands vcenter 6.5 zip file

So for this step you need to upload the backup script to the broken vCenter.Ĭonnect to your vCenter Appliance and then choose the folder /tmp (right window) and move the backup script file to it (drag and drop). One for the backup and one for the restore.

#Schedule commands vcenter 6.5 zip file

The zip file has two script files backup_lin.py and restore_lin.py. I use WinSCP to move the file from my laptop to the vCenter. Step 2 (step 1 to 3):Īfter download the script 2091961_linux_backup_restore.zip you need to upload the file to vCenter Appliance so that you can run the command to backup the DB. You can download from the VMware KB HERE.

Reboot vCenter Appliance and check consistency.Īfter I have the plan is time to go for the tasks one by one and how to.įirst, you need to download the VMware script to backup and restore the vPostgres DB.

Restore vPostgres DB from Backup created in step 2.

Update vCenter Appliance(to have the same build as the broken vCenter).

Use Veeam Backup and Restore vCenter Appliance.

Check DB is running and do a vPostgres DB backup.

So I decided to go with the following plan. I have a broken vCenter that DB is running (so that is available) and I have an old VM backup that I can use it. So need to create a restore plan for this vCenter. If there were no other option, I would do it, but I want to find a different approach that doesn’t need this kind of effort. Needed to do this in the past, and I know the pain to do this. This is a manual work that takes many hours. Since I would need to remove all hosts(around 50) one by one from vCenter and add them back again to correct the first two errors and also many VMs that were orphaned that need to be removed from vCenter Inventory and add back again to vCenter. Would take many, many hours to fix all these issues. We can see here an example of the errors that you will encounter with a restore that old (error in ESXi hosts). Any changes done in the last 40 days trough vCenter will not be restored, and trough ESXi host will not be sync. Since all hosts will be out of sync, all new VMs that were added to vCenter will show orphaned and a lot of problems.

That was the question since the backup was 40 days old and restoring a vCenter this old is a big issue. After I give up trying to fix it, was time to restore. The vCenter had the DB running, but ODBC was broken, and some services were not running and was not possible to restart (mainly vpxd), and the connection to the DB was always dropped. For the safe side, I did a backup a couple of months ago of this vCenter, so the backup that I had to restore this vCenter was too old (40 days). We have Veeam to backup most of our Virtual Infrastructure, but this is one of the vCenter that are not included in our backup plan.

#Schedule commands vcenter 6.5 how to

In this article vCenter 6.0 Appliance (VCSA) fix and restore will not go through how to troubleshoot the issue, or what the root cause(was not possible to identify with 100% sure what was the root cause), but only the way to recover and restore the vCenter.

After some Storage issues vCenter stop working and was not possible to recover, so I decided to write this article vCenter 6.0 Appliance (VCSA) fix and restore to help others with the same issue. This week we had an outage with our vCenter Appliance 6.0 vPostgres DB.