Backup and recover Vmware ESXi installs on SD cards

Here's a small piece on teh backing up and restoring of vmware 'firmware' most often used when running the hypervisor off SD cards.


Using the Vcenter-CLI:

Get-VmHostFirmware -Vmhost x.x.x.x -backupconfiguration -destinationpath c:\users\blah

Restoring:

Set-VmHostFirmware -Vmhost x.x.x.x -restore -sourcepath c:\users\blah\configbundle-<vmhost ip>.tgz -HostUser root -HostPassword <password>