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    <title>topic Re: Can not backup ESXi in vSphere Command-Line Interface Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242345#M1058</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Which ESXi, PowerCLI, and vCLI version/build do you use?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;On what host OS (version/build) do you run these commands?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;André&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:37:57 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>a_p_</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-03-05T18:37:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Can not backup ESXi</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242344#M1057</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Dear Members!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Please take a look and try to advise in the following situation:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have my ESXi I can connect via POWERCli or CMD but can not backup it. &lt;BR /&gt;None of the solutions works what I found on the Internet:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;via PowerCLI:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #408c52;"&gt;PowerCLI C:\&amp;gt; Get-VMHostFirmware -vmhost 192.168.99.2 -BackupConfiguration -DestinationPath c:\&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #408c52;"&gt;G&lt;SPAN style="color: #e23d39;"&gt;et-VMHostFirmware : 3/5/2019 3:14:41 PM&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Get-VMHostFirmware&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; An exception occurred during a WebClient request.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #e23d39;"&gt;At line:1 char:1&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #e23d39;"&gt;+ Get-VMHostFirmware -vmhost 192.168.99.2 -BackupConfiguration -Destina ...&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #e23d39;"&gt;+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #e23d39;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; + CategoryInfo&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-VMHostFirmware], ViError&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #e23d39;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_SystemManagementServiceImpl_BackupVmHostFirmware_DownloadError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Host.GetVMHostFirmware&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #408c52;"&gt;PowerCLI C:\&amp;gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;via CMD:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #408c52;"&gt;C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin&amp;gt;vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --server -s 192.168.99.2 ESXibackup.tgz&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #408c52;"&gt;Enter username: root&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #408c52;"&gt;Enter password:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #e23d39;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Server version unavailable at '&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://localhost:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl" rel="nofollow"&gt;https://localhost:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;' at C:/Program Files (x86)/VMware/VMware vSphere CLI/Perl/lib/VMware/VICommon.pm line 726, &amp;lt;STDIN&amp;gt; line 2.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #408c52;"&gt;C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin&amp;gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:18:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242344#M1057</guid>
      <dc:creator>thenightfly</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-03-05T14:18:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can not backup ESXi</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242345#M1058</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Which ESXi, PowerCLI, and vCLI version/build do you use?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;On what host OS (version/build) do you run these commands?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;André&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:37:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242345#M1058</guid>
      <dc:creator>a_p_</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-03-05T18:37:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can not backup ESXi</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242346#M1059</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Dear &lt;B&gt;a.p.&lt;/B&gt;​&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;PowerCLI&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="2019-03-06 08_58_25-VMware PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1 build 4624819.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8872i03EFD64B9695BC30/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="2019-03-06 08_58_25-VMware PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1 build 4624819.jpg" alt="2019-03-06 08_58_25-VMware PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1 build 4624819.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;vSphereCLI&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="2019-03-06 09_00_06-Programs and Features.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8873i1E782E620523C354/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="2019-03-06 09_00_06-Programs and Features.jpg" alt="2019-03-06 09_00_06-Programs and Features.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;ESXi's are:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="2019-03-06 09_01_27-localhost.localdomain - VMware ESXi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8874iB123CD7A2F33576A/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="2019-03-06 09_01_27-localhost.localdomain - VMware ESXi.jpg" alt="2019-03-06 09_01_27-localhost.localdomain - VMware ESXi.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;and:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="2019-03-06 09_02_39-192.168.1.254 - Remote Desktop Connection.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/8875iFC74E4FC3E5FD68C/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="2019-03-06 09_02_39-192.168.1.254 - Remote Desktop Connection.jpg" alt="2019-03-06 09_02_39-192.168.1.254 - Remote Desktop Connection.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;none of them are working.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:04:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242346#M1059</guid>
      <dc:creator>thenightfly</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-03-06T08:04:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can not backup ESXi</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242347#M1060</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;You are running very old versions.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The installed PowerCLI version doesn't support ESXi 6.5 Update 1 &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;see &lt;A href="https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php#interop&amp;amp;299=&amp;amp;1=" title="https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php#interop&amp;amp;299=&amp;amp;1="&gt;VMware Product Interoperability Matrices&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;André&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:20:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242347#M1060</guid>
      <dc:creator>a_p_</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-03-06T18:20:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can not backup ESXi</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242348#M1061</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;So, what I had to do: (for others who's having the same issue:)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;update PowerCLI via PowerShell:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="color: #408c52;"&gt;Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;set InvalidCertification skip:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #408c52;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction ignore -confirm:$false&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Connect:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #408c52;"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Connect-VIServer 192.168.99.2&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Backup to folder:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="color: #408c52;"&gt;Get-VMHostFirmware -vmhost 192.168.99.2 -BackupConfiguration -DestinationPath c:\Temp&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="color: #408c52;"&gt; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #303030;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;now it's working.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:28:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Command-Line-Interface/Can-not-backup-ESXi/m-p/2242348#M1061</guid>
      <dc:creator>thenightfly</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-03-07T09:28:12Z</dc:date>
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