Hi,
this week we started upgrading our ESXi hosts from 6.5 to 6.5 update 1, using update manager.
For many years we made the ESXi hosts configuration backup using the vSphere CLI, by the vicfg-cfgbackup command, but after the 6.5 release we have same
errors that seems related to nonpresent Perl libraries.
So we started backupping ESXi configuration using the following PowerCLI command:
Get-VMHostFirmware -VMHost ESXi_host_IP_address -BackupConfiguration -DestinationPath output_directory
Now, after upgrading the first 4 host to ESXi 6.5 update 1, this backup no works anymore.
We obtain the following error:
PowerCLI C:\> Get-VMHostFirmware -VMHost srvesx013.xxxxxx -BackupConfiguration -DestinationPath C:\BCK
Get-VMHostFirmware : 23/08/2017 15:41:05 Get-VMHostFirmware A general system error occurred: Internal error
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-VMHostFirmware -VMHost srvesx013.xxxxxx -BackupConfigura ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-VMHostFirmware], SystemError
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_SystemManagementServiceImpl_BackupVmHostFirmware_ViError,VMware.VimAutomation.V
iCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Host.GetVMHostFirmware
While for an host that is still at 6.5 release, the command works well, as usual:
PowerCLI C:\> Get-VMHostFirmware -VMHost srvesx012.xxxxxxx -BackupConfiguration -DestinationPath C:\BCK
Host Data
---- ----
srvesx012... C:\BCK\configBundle-srvesx012.xxxxxxx.tgz
Any hints?
