Hi, I have a free version of ESXi (@home) that I just upgraded from 5.0.0 6238602 to 5.1.0 914609.
I have previously used vicfg-cfgbackup.pl to backup the configuration (I'm booting of a USB Flash drive).
But after the upgrade vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --save goes okay, but the vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --load fails with this;
Enter username: root
Enter password:
The restore operation will reboot the host.
Type 'yes' to continue:
yes
Uploading config bundle to configBundle.tgz ...
Unable to enter maintenance mode: Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation.. Please ensure no virtual machines are running on the host and retry the operation again.
Yes, all the guest was stopped and the host was i maintenance mode (using VMware vSphere Client)
I also notice that a similar message when using vicfg-hostops.pl to put the host in maintenance mode;
Enter username: root
Enter password:
Host esxi2 cannot enter into maintenance mode.
SOAP Fault:
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Fault string: Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the request
ed operation.
Fault detail: RestrictedVersionFault
So, the questions I have;
- Is it intentional that the free version (license) is not allowed to use vicfg-cfgbackup.pl --load (or vicfg-hostops.pl)?
Like to know if this is a error on my host or not ...
- If so, are there other ways of doing a backup of the configuration?
- If not, I guess a backup of the USB Flash drive is the only way to go, but I have tried to do a disk clone in a lot of ways, but since no USB Flash drive are 100% equal, it often fails (and have to take place when the host are down)
...