ESXI Host Backup

[alankoh]

Hi all

Just wondering what happen / need to be done when there is a complete physical host failure in a vsphere HA setup

1) Can we just install the ESXI on a new host / setup host name / ESXI management network and join it back to the vsphere HA cluster ?

If i am using a distributed vswitch - will the vswitch/network configuration be automatically "push" to the new node ?

2) What are the things that i will need to re-configure on the ESXI host ? Are there any configurations that will be store in vCenter - such that i do not have to re-configure those configurations to the host again ?

3) Is it useful to do ESXI host configuration backup ?

Thank you

[Kinnison]

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[scott28tt]

Can you use Host Profiles to manage host configuration?

[alankoh]

hi scott

if i am using host profile - is it still required to have host config backup ?

what are the stuffs that is inside host config backup ?

thank you

[scott28tt]

Browse through your host profile and see what settings it includes, then you should understand what parameters you would ever need to manually configure should a host need reinstalling.

[Kinnison]

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[jpaucek]

The tool restarts all affected VMs on other servers in the cluster if an entire host fails. 

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