Recently I upgraded vSphere 4.0 to 4.1. Therefore, I first backed up the vCenter data, configured a new Windows Server 2008 R2 server, and then used install.bat to install vCenter 4.1 with all the data from the old server.
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"Backing up vCenter Orchestrator configuration failed" during upgrade to vSphere vCenter 4.1
Today I prepared the upgrade from vSphere vCenter 4.0 to 4.1. One of the steps that must be completed is running Backup.bat.
At the end of backup.bat, I got the following error: "Backing up vCenter Orchestrator configuration failed"
Automatically upgrade VMWare Tools on multiple Virtual Machines
A new version of ESX often comes with a new version of VMWare Tools. In my case, I did a migration of ESX 3.5 to vSphere (4.0). A manual installation of VMWare Tools would be pretty time-wasting (50 virtual machines). Therefore, I’ve searched on Google, and found the following solution: Powershell!