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While Active Directory (AD) does not need DNS Reverse Lookup Zones, most Citrix and VMware products do. If you are visiting my website, you probably use Citrix and VMware products. If you have heard or read any of my AD conference or CUGC presentations, you know how important AD Sites and Services Subnets and DNS Reverse Lookup Zones are to Citrix and VMware.
Recently I worked on a project where I needed to create a PowerShell script to automate the creation of numerous Microsoft DHCP servers and all their scopes, scope options, reservations, all settings. The original DHCP servers were in an old Active Directory domain, and a new AD Forest was created with a different networking scheme. I used the output from the DHCP documentation script to gather all the info needed, but there was one scope option that had me stumped.
I wrote an article on how to Backup the vCenter Server Appliance using NFS and then needed to figure out how to restore the backup. In VMware’s article on restoring a vCenter server, I saw this:
“If you use a distributed virtual switch, you are advised to export
separately the distributed virtual switch configuration before you
restore to a backup. You can import the configuration after the restore. If you omit this consideration, you may lose the changes made to a distributed virtual switch after the backup.
The vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), like all software, receives updates. The VCSA makes it drop-dead simple to update. Before you start, the first thing to do is to back up the VCSA. After you have a backup, you can continue with the update.
Updated 31-Dec-2019 to show ten days of Scheduled Backups.
Updated 23-Dec-2019 to show the results of the Scheduled Backup job.
It is important to have a backup of all important data, servers, and Virtual Machines, whether in a lab or production environment. Before making major changes to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), it is important to make a backup first. This article covers backing up the VCSA using NFS.