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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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Restoring dvSwitch from a backup

The fact that we can create a backup of a dvSwitch enables the ability to restore its configuration from a backup. The restore functionality is particularly useful when the changes made to a dvSwitch have yielded undesired results.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you restore dvSwitch from a backup:

Bring up the Networking inventory using the vSphere Web Client by using the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 5.

Right-click on the desired dvSwitch, go to Settings, and click on Restore Configuration...:

In the Restore Configuration window, browse and select the backup file to restore from and choose to either restore dvSwitch and its port group settings or just the port group. Once you have made the desired choice, click Next to continue: