VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5

5.2 5.1 5.0 4.5
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Gather Information from the SDDC Manager Backup

The encrypted SDDC Manager backup contains information required for the recovery process.

UI Procedure

  1. Identify a backup file for the restore operation and download it from the SFTP server to your host machine.
  2. On your host machine, open a terminal and run the following command to extract the content of the backup file.
    OPENSSL_FIPS=1 openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -md sha256 -in filename-of-restore-file | tar -xz
  3. When prompted, enter the
    encryption_password
    .
  4. In the extracted folder, locate and open the
    metadata.json
     file in a text editor.
  5. Locate the
    sddc_manager_ova_location
     value and copy the URL.
  6. In a Web browser, paste the URL and download the SDDC Manager OVA file.
  7. In the extracted folder, locate and view the contents of the
    security_password_vault.json
     file.
  8. Write down the following information for each component:
    Component
    Information
    ESXi hosts
    • FQDN
    • IP address
    • root
       user password
    • Service account user name
    vCenter Server
    • FQDN
    • IP address
    • root
       user password
    • SSO administrator password
    NSX Manager nodes
    • FQDN
    • IP address
    • admin
       user password
    • root
       user password
    • audit
       user password
    NSX Edge nodes
    • FQDN
    • IP address
    • root
       user password
    • admin
       user password
    • audit
       user password
    SDDC Manager
    • FQDN
    • IP address
    • root
       user password
    • Backup user password
    • FIPS configuration

PowerShell Procedure

  1. Windows PowerShell を起動します。
  2. サンプル コードの値を
    の値に置き換え、PowerShell コンソールでコマンドを実行します。
    $vcfBackupFilePath = ".\vcf-backup-sfo-vcf01-sfo-rainpole-io-2024-05-21-15-51-04.tar.gz"
$encryptionPassword = "VMw@re1!VMw@re1!"
$managementVcenterBackupFolderPath = "10.221.78.133/F$/backup/vCenter/sn_sfo-m01-vc01.sfo.rainpole.io/M_8.0.1.00100_20231121-104120_"
  3. PowerShell コンソールでコマンドを実行して、構成を実行します。
    New-ExtractDataFromSDDCBackup -vcfBackupFilePath $vcfBackupFilePath -managementVcenterBackupFolderPath $managementVcenterBackupFolderPath -encryptionPassword $encryptionPassword

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