Reset vCenter Network Configuration

[warnox]

Hi,

I'm wondering if there is a way to reset the vCenter network configuration without re-deploying the appliance? Recently I've been playing around in a lab with Distributed Switches and I managed to "lock" myself by renaming uplinks which vCenter is using (not sure why but it happens every time). Anyway, when this occurs I cannot get the web interface of the appliance to work again and restarting it takes a long time.

Thanks for any help.

[bayupw]

Hi

Do you have any backup of your distributed switches?
If yes, you can restore it if you still have access to vSphere Web Client

VMware KB: Exporting/importing/restoring Distributed Switch configs using vSphere Web client 

If not then one way is to restore the vSwitch network configuration as described in vSphere Documentation here: vSphere 5.5 Documentation Center - Restoring the Standard Switch

also documented in these KB articles:

VMware KB: The Management Network vSwitch is deleted on the ESXi host

VMware KB: Configuring vSwitch or vNetwork Distributed Switch from the command line in ESXi/ESX

[warnox]

Say I did have a backup, if I lose access to vCenter (so only have access to the console) how do I restore the configuration without re-deploying the vCenter server appliance?