Reinstalling vCenter

[brenko]

I am looking for a little validation. If one has a single vCenter with say 2 hosts, it seems to me that the quickest way to recover vCenter should the hardware fail, would be to simply reinstall vCenter and add the hosts back in. Instead of the process of backing up the db, restoring it etc. especially if using the express version of SQL.

Install the server, add the license file, deploy the license, done.

Thoughts?

Ben

[Troy_Clavell]

sure, that's the quick and easy way. You just lose historical data, resource pools, DRS rules, etc because you will be starting with a blank DB

[brenko]

Thanks for the response, and I know the ramifications. Working with this in a lab we had changed the name of the server from say Lab1 to Lab2 (in a workgroup not a domain), then when we attempted to log into localhost, we could not access the vCenter db. So being a lab, we removed and reinstalled and that was a fairly quick fix.

Ben

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

that's what labs are for. Tear them down and rebuild them, great hands on experience!