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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Esxi : Recovering from a bad update : Last known good configuration for vmware

Posted on 8:24 AM by Unknown

Recovering from a bad update.
Press Shift+R at the boot prompt.
Esxi should fall back to the last known good state.
You have t o be real fast!

From Gleed
ESXi is a dual-image hypervisor in that it stores two copies of the ESXi image at any one time.  If you install a patch and something breaks, you can press [Shift+R]  at the boot prompt during boot to have it automatically fall back to the last known good state.

Pasted from <http://communities.vmware.com/message/2090467#2090467>



Pic 1: Shows you where to press Shift-R




Pic2:  If you had multiple versions of the hyper visor available it would come up here.


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