Thanks for your video. My initial problem is that i disabled module vmw_ahci and now i am not able to enable it back via cli. After a reboot it is always reverted to disabled state. Already tried every tutorial available, but no luck. I can see that it is disabled in the esx.conf. What i want to do now is to follow your tutorial but then change the parameter in the esx.conf and tar everything back, encrypt the tar and restore that modified backup. What is the crypto-util command to re-encrypt the tar?
cd /scratch/downloads vmkfstools --server=server_name --username=root --password=your_password -k -a 'aes256-cbc' -i local.tgz -o local_encrypted.tgz --server: Replace server_name with your ESXi server's IP address or hostname. --username and --password: Replace root with the username and password for your ESXi host. -k: This option tells vmkfstools to keep the original file. -a 'aes256-cbc': This specifies the encryption algorithm. You can choose a different algorithm if needed. -i local.tgz: This is the input file. -o local_encrypted.tgz: This is the output file with encryption
@@Liv4IT @Liv4IT when i put configBundle.tgz in second esxi host and then want to restore, is show some error and i not success to do that, if possible for you please make one video, i think this is problem of some people
The crypto-utils package is designed for, SSL certificate and key management utilities : yum install crypto-utils This command will install crypto-utils on the server.
Thank You very Much
It was a Great Video with Full Detail of Restoring ESXI
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent and amazing video !!you are and excellent teacher
Thank you! 😃
Thanks for your video.
My initial problem is that i disabled module vmw_ahci and now i am not able to enable it back via cli. After a reboot it is always reverted to disabled state. Already tried every tutorial available, but no luck. I can see that it is disabled in the esx.conf.
What i want to do now is to follow your tutorial but then change the parameter in the esx.conf and tar everything back, encrypt the tar and restore that modified backup.
What is the crypto-util command to re-encrypt the tar?
U can use vmware-secureboot --encrypt-esxconf /etc/vmware/esx.conf
@@Liv4IT thanks but by "file" i meant the tgz archive. I edited my initial post.
So how can i re-encrypt local.tgz?
cd /scratch/downloads
vmkfstools --server=server_name --username=root --password=your_password -k -a 'aes256-cbc' -i local.tgz -o local_encrypted.tgz
--server: Replace server_name with your ESXi server's IP address or hostname.
--username and --password: Replace root with the username and password for your ESXi host.
-k: This option tells vmkfstools to keep the original file.
-a 'aes256-cbc': This specifies the encryption algorithm. You can choose a different algorithm if needed.
-i local.tgz: This is the input file.
-o local_encrypted.tgz: This is the output file with encryption
if we want to use backup on another host esxi
then what must do?
The easiest way is to install vsphere then you can perform backup between esxi hosts you can even do that live without service interruption
@@Liv4IT can you make a video for this problem?
@@warrior1635 will try but that requires two esxi hosts from there its pretty simple with vsphere just Drag from one esxi host and drop to the other
@@Liv4IT @Liv4IT when i put configBundle.tgz in second esxi host and then want to restore, is show some error and i not success to do that, if possible for you please make one video, i think this is problem of some people
i dont have the crypto-util command how can i get it
Its available from esxi 7.0 rc3
anybody happen to know if there's a crypto-util utility equivalent on Linux?
The crypto-utils package is designed for, SSL certificate and key management utilities : yum install crypto-utils
This command will install crypto-utils on the server.
@@Liv4IT would that be the very same utility from esxi?. I'm looking to decrypt the tarball on a Linux machine
Good but.
Better explain to people how to restore the esxi configuration to a DIFFERENT hardware/server!
I agree wihh you but in order to fo that i forget to tell you should restore to a same build number of ESXI and same UUID 😑
Solution for this error --> crypto-util envelope: ESXi kernel key cache error searching for
Sorry no idea what are u taking about i need more info when that happened in which stage!! 🤔