vSphere management assistant for ESXi 6.0 and SMB2 protocol issue

[comoalt]

Hey folks,

   I recently noticed my vma is not anymore correctly executing ESXi config backup to our storage, since it was migrated to SMB2.

I have a script, where vicfg-cfgbackup is used to backup and destination volume is mounted on boot using fstab.

Manualy mounting i receive error=95, even if add vers=2.1 in mount options. Actually i think this could be related to unsupported operation of cifs.mount.

If apt and yum are not available for vma, how can i update cifs-utils or related packages? Is there any tgz i can download?

Any tips are welcome

[depping · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately there's no support anymore for vMA, it was deprecated about 3 years ago I think, you should really consider using something different.

[comoalt]

Hello,

 thank you for your reply. I also got confimation here https://code.vmware.com/web/tool/6.5/vma

That's really a bad news since vMA backup is just one of the things but that vm is able to do more, for example keep centralized ESXi logs (not used in my case) or controls UPS events (i have in use throught vMA).

It seems it was just replaced by vCLI as explained in this blog https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/04/vsphere-management-assistant-deprecation.html . Using vCLI, i don't think it could be easy, for instance, to reproduce UPS software behaviour.

Really bad news man 😞

Anyway thanks for your time