如果要備份或回復 VMware ESXi 的設定，可以安裝 VMware vSphere Command Line Interface。
1. 登入 VMware 官方網站下載 VMware vSphere Command Line Interface
1 – For Windows
2 – For Linux x86_64
3 – For Linux x86
[@more@]參考網頁：
vmware-vsphere-cli-centos7.sh · GitHub
The Pain and Fury of vmware-cli on CentOS 7 | Morgajel.net
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2. 安裝必備套件
# yum install epel-release
# yum update
# yum install openssl-devel cpan perl-Devel-StackTrace perl-Class-Data-Inheritable perl-Convert-ASN1 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA perl-Exception-Class perl-Archive-Zip perl-Try-Tiny perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-XML-SAX perl-XML-NamespaceSupport perl-libxml-perl perl-XML-LibXML perl-Socket6 perl-IO-Socket-INET6 libuuid-devel perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-X509 perl-Path-Class perl-Class-MethodMaker perl-Data-UUID perl-Data-Dump perl-SOAP-Lite perl-Net-INET6Glue
# PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 cpan install BINGOS/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.96.tar.gz LEONT/Module-Build-0.4205.tar.gz GBARR/libnet-1.22.tar.gz GAAS/libwww-perl-5.837.tar.gz PERLER/UUID-Random-0.04.tar.gz
3. 解壓縮
# tar xvzf VMware-vSphere-CLI-6.5.0-4566394.x86_64.tar.gz
4. 切換目錄
# cd vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib
5. 進行安裝
# ./vmware-install.pl –prefix=/opt/vmwarecli EULA_AGREED=yes –default
Creating a new vSphere CLI installer database using the tar4 format.
Installing vSphere CLI 6.5.0 build-4566394 for Linux.
This vSphere CLI installer includes precompiled Perl modules for RHEL.
Answering yes will install the precompiled modules, and answering no will
install from CPAN.
Do you want to install precompiled Perl modules for RHEL?
[yes]
Please wait while copying vSphere CLI files…
The installation of vSphere CLI 6.5.0 build-4566394 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command:
“/opt/vmwarecli/bin/vmware-uninstall-vSphere-CLI.pl”.
This installer has successfully installed both vSphere CLI and the vSphere SDK
for Perl.
The following Perl modules were found on the system but may be too old to work
with vSphere CLI:
Devel::StackTrace 1.31 or newer
MIME::Base64 3.14 or newer
Try::Tiny 0.22 or newer
LWP 6.15 or newer
Socket6 0.23 or newer
IO::Socket::INET6 2.71 or newer
Net::HTTP 6.09 or newer
Enjoy,
–the VMware team
6. 程式安裝路徑
# ls -l /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-*
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 9632 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-advcfg
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 11645 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-authconfig
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 8920 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-cfgbackup
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 9140 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-dns
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 12580 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-dumppart
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 16564 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-hostops
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 24199 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-ipsec
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 76696 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-iscsi
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 6872 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-module
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 20543 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-mpath
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 17871 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-mpath35
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 8314 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-nas
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 9364 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-nics
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 7144 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-ntp
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 2874 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-rescan
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 13481 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-route
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 21745 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-scsidevs
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 12387 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-snmp
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 5643 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-syslog
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 22531 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-user
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 26398 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-vmknic
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 13010 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-volume
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 36078 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-vswitch
# ls -l /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vm*
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 40411 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vmkfstools
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 59908 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vmware-cmd
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 128151 3月 28 19:23 /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vmware-uninstall-vSphere-CLI.pl
7. 進行備份
–server Server’IP
-s 備份設定
# /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-cfgbackup –server 192.168.1.234 -s /root/esx.cfg
Enter username: root
Enter password:
Saving firmware configuration to /root/esx.cfg …
8. 還原設定值，ESXi Server 會重新啟動
# /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-cfgbackup –server 192.168.1.234 -l /root/esx.cfg
Enter username: root
Enter password:
The restore operation will reboot the host.
Type ‘yes’ to continue:
yes
Uploading config bundle to configBundle.tgz …
Performing restore …
系統重新開機
9. 指令用法
# /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-cfgbackup –help
Synopsis: /opt/vmwarecli/bin/vicfg-cfgbackup OPTIONS [<backupfile>]
Command-specific options:
–force
-f
Force the restore of the configuration.
–load
-l
Restore configuration onto the host
–quiet
-q
Do not prompt for user confirmation.
–reset
-r
Resets host, restore to factory settings.
–save
-s
Backup the host configuration.