Failed SDDC Manager, No backup

[Wedginald]

Are there any workable options for recovering a failed SDDC Manager instance where there is no backup? We don't have file based backup or a snapshot of the VM in a working state. 

Asking for a friend... :-|

[pcgeek2009]

I am not aware of a solution around this problem. I set up an Ubuntu based SFTP server to send my backups to each day. This may be a path you want to consider in the future. Do you know why it has failed? Were you attempting an upgrade? Do you have any specific errors you can share? 

[Marek Zdrojewski]

Without any form on backup, there is no recovery. However, if the SDDC Manager is completely lost, you are basically running a plain vSphere environment. If this is a lab, you could try to follow the "Converting or Importing Existing vSphere Environments into VMware Cloud Foundation" and provision new SDDC Manager. I never tried it myself but theoretically, it should work. Make sure you run the "check" and "precheck" with the vcf_brownfield.py script and verify if all checks are OK.

Hope this helps.