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In the previous article, we talked about how to restore vCenter using native backup. In this part, we will talk about how to restore VMware vCenter Server using Veeam Backup and Replication.
Although restoring a VM using Veeam is a simple task, but when we are talking about vCenter Server a few moments should be considered.
Let’s get started.
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Someone may know that a vSphere 8.0 Update 2 bug prevents you from setting a static MAC address for a VM (KB 95189).
The symptom is simple – you change the MAC address in the VM’s network interface settings, but after you click OK, nothing changes.
As a workaround, there is a solution – do the same using vSphere Host Client (ESXi Web interface). But in my case, this workaround doesn’t help, I’ve received an error:
Failed to reconfigure virtual machine pleasechangemymac. Invalid configuration for device '4'.If you are in this situation and you need to change a VM MAC address, one good old hack still works – edit the VM’s VMX file.
Next – how to change the MAC address.
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vCenter server is a critical part of the VMware infrastructure stack, and most components and 3rd-party solutions depend on it. Although downtime of vCenter may not cause a problem with overall infrastructure and will not cause a VMs downtime, it will affect the provision of new resources, management, backups, and so on. So, keeping your vCenter up and running is a priority task in most cases.
In the few articles, we will look at how to backup and restore the vCenter server, if something goes wrong. There are a few strategies for protecting the vCenter server, but all of them depend on the required availability of the service. It can be backup, replication, vCenter HA functionality, or even deploying a new vCenter and connecting hosts manually.
We will look at two options – backup and restore vCenter using the native backup function and backup and restore vCenter using 3rd party backup software.
In this article, we will take a closer look at how to backup vCSA using native backup, available in VAMI.
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In this article, we will look at backing up Nutanix AHV virtual machines using VBR 12.1 and Nutanix AHV Plug-In v5.
The main difference between the v4 plugin and v5 is the possibility of creating backup jobs related to Nutanix AHV VMs right in the VBR console. You don’t need to connect to the backup appliance deployed in a Nutanix cluster to create a backup job.
Also, please make sure, that you’re using version 5.1 of the plugin or higher because of the critical bug found in v5.0.
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