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Posted inPowerShell VMware

New Script: Backup VMware Virtual Distributed Switches V1.00

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.

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Backup the vCenter Server Appliance using NFS

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.

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Posted inDNS PowerShell

New Script: Set-DNSScavengeServer

I do a lot of Active Directory Health Check and Remediation projects. Going all the way back to my first conference presentation, 95% of Active Directory (AD) issues trace their roots to DNS. One of the DNS culprits is not having DNS Aging and Scavenging configured correctly. This new script will configure the DNS scavenging server for every Active Directory-integrated Forward and Reverse Lookup Zone.