Open your favorite web browser and navigate to either or depending on your vSphere version.
Provide a User name and Password with access to the vCenter Server and click on Login.In one of the previous posts How to backup NSX? I showed you how the process of NSX backup. As a best practice, I suggested aligning NSX backup with vSphere Distributed Switch backup. Today I will show you how to backup and restore vSphere Distributed Switch. VSphere Distributed Switch backup using vSphere Web Client HOW TO USE VSPHERE CLIENT 6.5 HOW TO Click Networking and click Actions from the main vSphere Web Client GUI.From the Actions menu click **Settings **and Export Configuration.Choose Distributed switch and all port groups.
This allows us to have all settings exported and have full backup of vDS. The final step is to save exported backup on the local disk. Give the file meaningful name like backup_DATE_vCenter_vDS_NAME.zip.
VSphere Distributed Switch backup using PowerCLI Once we saved the backup using vSphere Web Client we can do the same with PowerCLI. Why would you do it from PowerCLI? The answer is automation. Backup using PowerCLI means you can schedule it as scheduled task and run it periodically. Get-VDSwitch -Name vDS | Export-VDSwitch -Description "vDS Backup " -Destination "c:\vDS_backup.zip" Use the following one-liner to export all vDS from vCenter Server. Where vDS is the name of the switch and vDS_backup.zip is the backup filename. VSphere Distributed Switch restore using vSphere Web Client Please check below blog articles for other ways to backup vDS using PowerCLI: Of course, there are other (better or more complicated/sophisticated) ways to do it. On the vDS where will we try restore I created two PortGroups.
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