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Add MABS support to VMWare ESXI 6.7

I'm trying to backup VMs from an ESXI 6.7 host, however, the MABS solution does not support ESXI 6.7 yet.

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  • David Farr commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Graham; Acknowledged & thanks for sharing.
    I have since resolved my scenario by re-enabling TLS 1.0 on the Vcenter and retaining the IgnoreCertificateValidation as True as our environment is secure enough to not require the certs. Your method is certainly more secure as a best practice.

  • Graham Stewart commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hey David,

    I posted it after testing it in my environment and i was over the moon that I could protect my vSphere 6.7 environment. It had been a while coming!

    All i did to get it operational was

    1. Install the Product
    2. Import the vSphere Root Cert in to the Computer Account/Trusted Root Authorities
    3. Added reg keys
    4. reboot

    and it just started working. Couldn't get the DNS name to work but IP address was fine. Additionally i didn't seem to get the username format user@domain working. Seemed to need DOMAIN\user format.

    Hope that helps

  • David Farr commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Has Microsoft's workaround solution (noted by Graham below) actually worked for anyone ?
    These registry hacks (including the typo) are also mentioned at; https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-backup-server-vmware#vmware-vsphere-67 although I've had no joy with them (yes, I did reboot). I've enabled TLS 1.2 via registry entries alone [.....\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.2]. Additional efforts included re-importing the VMware certificates.
    All done; since upgrading my VMware to 6.7 I still cannot connect MABS to Vcenter. Connections via the server IE browser work correctly. Am I perhaps missing something ?

  • Graham Stewart commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    VMWare vSphere 6.7
    To backup vSphere 6.7 do the following:
    Enable TLS 1.2 on DPM Server
    Note
    VMWare 6.7 onwards had enabled TLS as communication protocol.
    Set the registry keys as follows:
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft.NETFramework\v2.0.50727] "SystemDefaultTlsVersions"=dword:00000001 "SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft.NETFramework\v4.0.30319] "SystemDefaultTlsVersions"=dword:00000001 "SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft.NETFramework\v2.0.50727] "SystemDefaultTlsVersions"=dword:00000001 "SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft.NETFramework\v4.0.30319] "SystemDefaultTlsVersions"=dword:00000001 s"SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001

  • Cranky SE commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    While I understand that software is always a moving target, vCenter 6.7 has been out for almost a year. This is taking far longer than it should--which frankly looks like a design issue to me. I can't in good faith recommend this to my customers when your support lags so far behind.

  • John C. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I was performing an evaluation of DPM to replace our existing on-prem backup solution and ran across the same issue. It has been months now since we upgraded to 6.7 and still no support. I cannot recommend this product if it will take almost half a year to support VMware releases. We cannot afford to be without backups for a day let alone 6 months.

  • Ben commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm facing the same issue, upgraded vcenter to v6.7 to find our backup solution now doesn't work. gahhh....

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