Anyway, besides lots of advantages, vDS can be pain in the ass if something happen to them. And bad things happen, rarely but … You need always to be prepared. Specially during operation with vCenter (and PSC) like upgade or reconfiguration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fortunately starting from vCenter 5.5 (if I can remember well) we have a way to backup vDS independently from vCenter database. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The easiest way is to backup via web client or PowerCLI. Below you can find a simple script to backup all vDS in vCenter. Maybe it is worth to setup this in schedule?
Please remember to change the path variable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
if($global:DefaultVIServers.Count -gt 0) {
write-host \"Jeste\u015b pod\u0142\u0105czony do vcenter:\" $global:DefaultVIServers[0].name
} else {
write-host \"You are not connected to any vCenter. Connect to vCenter by using connect-viserver command.\"
Break
}<\/code><\/p>$date = (Get-Date).ToString(\"yyyy-MM-dd\")
$path = \"e:\\vds-backup\\\"
$i=0
while ($i -ne 1) {
$fullpath = $path + \"\\\" + $date
if(Get-Item -Path $fullpath -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue){
$date = $date + \"_\"
}
else{
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path I:\\install_it\\vmware\\dumpy\\vds\\$date
foreach ( $vds in get-vdswitch ) { Export-VDSwitch $vds -Description $vds.name -Destination \"$fullpath\\$vds.zip\" }
$i=1
}
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