Continuing on with features found in the vSphere Distributed Switch, the Backup and Restore capability is a feature I rarely saw used when I was in the field. I saw, and still do see, customers going out of their way to make sure they can backup the vCenter database, and even more so SSO, but if you have to rebuild your vCenter or migrate to a new one and don’t have a backup of your Distributed Switch you’re going to be in for a lot of work.
This video shows you how you can backup and then also restore an entire Distributed Switch to a new vCenter and also restoring a port group configuration back to a working state after a change was made in error.
As per my usual I’ve also created a walkthrough for this process which is available here.
