vCF External Backups using a Windows SFTP Server and the D:\
I was working with a customer who wanted to configure a Windows SFTP server as the backup target for their VCF SDDC backups, and it was a bit of a pain to get working right, although in the end it wasn't too complicated. So, I'm writing my notes here! In this environment, the server is not given internet access, so installing the OpenSSH feature took a bit of extra work in Windows. The key there was to download the FOD ISO from Microsoft and mount that to our VM (not the normal Windows install ISO). Once that ISO was mounted (as the E:\ drive), I used the following DISM command to install the OpenSSH Server optional feature: dism /add-capability /online /capabilityname:OpenSSH.Server~~~~0.0.1.0 /source:E:\LanguagesAndOptionalFeatures That got OpenSSH installed, so I made sure that the service was set to Automatic in Windows and figured that we were good to go! Not quite... The server needed some configuration. The config file is "C:\ProgramData\SSH\sshd_config" a