Backing up ESXI Configuration

[Nik0tine]

I have been backing up VMs at my company using VM standalone and its worked great for what we are trying to do. However since we are saving these templates to a laptop, the templates are not copying the networks, pci cards etc. Is there a way to save the ESXI configurations so that we do not have to keep going back in and taking 20 minutes to reconfigure each ESXI and its VMs. I have done some research and have found something regarding vCLI but I cannot seem to get it to work. Can you simply just copy the files through WinSCP and deploy them? Any help would be appreciated.

[a_p_]

Since you are backing up to a laptop, I'd suggest that you install PowerCLI, and do the ESXi configuration backup this way.

You can find the required steps, and commands at e.g. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2042141​

André

[MikeStoica]

Check these links: https://www.vladan.fr/how-to-backup-esxi-4-1-configuration/  & https://www.altaro.com/vmware/esxi-backup-command-line/