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SurajRawat
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Invalid Backing on VM Nics

Hello,

I need an Expert Advice here.

We recently migrated a host on VDS to a new vcenter which has the same VDS Configuration imported.

After doing so, when we re-registered the vmx on the host we noticed that the network label on the vm is listed as "Invalid Backing"

Is this a know issue ? Any workaround or soution on this .

Thanks and Regards,

Suraj Rawat

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LucD
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I suspect yes.

Internally the VDS is identified with it's Id.

When you import the config, the new VDS will get a new Id

The VM still points to the old Id, hence the invalid backing message


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

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LucD
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I suspect yes.

Internally the VDS is identified with it's Id.

When you import the config, the new VDS will get a new Id

The VM still points to the old Id, hence the invalid backing message


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

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SurajRawat
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We have already registered around 300 vms in the environement. Anything that can be done now to rectify it other than adding the network labels via powercli ?

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LucD
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Yes, that seems the best way to me.

Connect all these VMs to the correct portgroup with a PowerCLI script


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

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