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    <title>topic vCenter startup without network connection to verify restored vCenter is working in VMware vCenter™ Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;I was recover vCenter from backup without shutting down the production vCenter (with the same name), to test backup in a DR scenario.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It was restored with a suffix -testbackup and with network disconnected.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This was working in 7.0.2 but in version 7.0.3G it is unable to start all services.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Especially the lookupsvc in not starting and very long time in start pending.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Isn't is possible to startup a restored vCenter without network ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If started up in a fenced network it wouldn't have access to NTP,DNS,AD etc.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:07:41 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>jravnsbaek</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2022-09-28T12:07:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>vCenter startup without network connection to verify restored vCenter is working</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/vCenter-startup-without-network-connection-to-verify-restored/m-p/2930919#M46418</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I was recover vCenter from backup without shutting down the production vCenter (with the same name), to test backup in a DR scenario.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It was restored with a suffix -testbackup and with network disconnected.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This was working in 7.0.2 but in version 7.0.3G it is unable to start all services.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Especially the lookupsvc in not starting and very long time in start pending.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Isn't is possible to startup a restored vCenter without network ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If started up in a fenced network it wouldn't have access to NTP,DNS,AD etc.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:07:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>jravnsbaek</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-09-28T12:07:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vCenter startup without network connection to verify restored vCenter is working</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/vCenter-startup-without-network-connection-to-verify-restored/m-p/2931333#M46430</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;We were unable to to get vCenter up without network connected, so we created fenced network with vcenter and an very limitied DNS server with only the record for vCenter.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Then we were able to startup vCenter with all services.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In version 7.0.2 we were able to startup vCenter without network connected and all services started and this has changed in 7.0.3.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Problem fixed by a workaround &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://communities.vmware.com/html/@DCF4E2F7991292CEECF250394DB2C2BC/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":slightly_smiling_face:" title=":slightly_smiling_face:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:09:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>jravnsbaek</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-09-30T08:09:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vCenter startup without network connection to verify restored vCenter is working</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/vCenter-startup-without-network-connection-to-verify-restored/m-p/2932040#M46461</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;It is because of the dependency of vmafd service for the DNS records.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:18:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>navina</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-10-05T10:18:02Z</dc:date>
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