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Monitor VDP usage using Nagios

May 12, 2015, 11:39 am
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hi guys

 

We monitor everything using Nagios.

So we have several VDP 5.5 and there is a tab named Reports where VDP indicates the backup usage and you know that when 80% or more VDP can get in troubles....

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Monitoring the filesystems /data01, /data02, /data03 won't accomplish the same....I already tried creating some correlation between the % reported in the Reports Tab and the df -h command space....but the thing is

when you delete Backups or when you reduce the retention policy, Reports Tab says % usage has decreased but I don't see that using the df  -h linux command

 

So my question is there a way to get that  % from Reports Tab anywhere in the VDP Appliance config files or something ?

thanks a lot

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Error on VDP 6.0

September 2, 2015, 1:00 am
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Hello,

i want to backup one fileserver, but i get this error:Unbenannt.JPG

 

 

 

 

At the attachment is the log file.

 

Why get i this error?
If i look in my vcenter there is no snapshot.

 

Thanks

Dennis

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VDP 6.1 replication to 6.0.2

September 25, 2015, 2:26 pm
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Thanks to jhunter I was able to perform a migration of my VDP to 6.1. 

 

The checkpoint restore from Data Domain worked great and the only issue I have left is my replication jobs are not running.  Prior to migration my replication jobs runs every evening to another VDP appliance.  After the migration the replication job did not run.  It does not run when I try manually.  I don't get an error. The job never runs. It doesn't show in the log that I tried to run it or that it failed.  I created a new replication job and the same thing happens.  It never runs and there is no error or a log of it.

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Increase CPU without increase of storage?

October 28, 2015, 10:56 am
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I"m currently running vSphere Data Protection 6.1 on a Windows 2012 server with vCenter 6U1.  Is it possible to increase the number of cpus the vdp is using without increasing the storage as well?  I'm finding that my backup are spiking my cpu usage however, I'm happy with where my storage level is.

 

I would appreciate any help, thanks.

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VMware Data Protection 6.1.1 vs Veeam....

December 9, 2015, 4:47 am
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Hi there,

 

I consider not renewing my Veeam B&R license this time because I want to try if the latest version of DP gives me what I need.

 

I need to replicate all VMs on two hosts on site A via a fibre link to a third host at a second location (site B) . The Veeam B&R software managed that excellently.  One replication each night that left complete ready-to-run VM replicas at the remote site.  No backup history, just one fresh copy of each VM each night.  No Exchange, SQL Server nor SharePoint.

 

I have only one VCenter server with one DP 6.1.1 appliance connected.  Can I use this setup to replicate VMs to site B in the same manner?  Do I need a DP proxy at site B?

 

Do I still have to restore the replicated VMs using DP in order to start / use them?  Why is it so difficult for VMWare to just snapshot and replicate the VM files in folders as Veeam does?  I'd like a replication solution that creates ready-to-run VMs at the remote site.  Do I need Veeam to achieve that..?

 

Comments are welcome :-)

 

greetings

 

btor

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VDP web interface slow at loading backup jobs

December 22, 2015, 11:03 am
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I've been using VDP for the past few years (on the latest version). My backup and replication jobs are running fine, and I perform backup restores about 4 to 8 times a year.

 

The web access has always been slow. It takes about 15-20 minutes to load the backup jobs tab. And every time I make a change to a backup job the screen has to load again and it takes another 15-20 minutes.  What's the deal?  Is this normal for you guys?

 

All my backups are currently going to a Data Domain. I have about 12 jobs that backs up 28 VMs.  Can anyone help me figure out why it takes that long to load up the backup jobs list?  This also happens in the restore and report tab as well.

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VDR 2.0.3 and vCenter 5.5 U3b authentication pop up repeats

March 16, 2016, 12:15 pm
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Long story short, we have a site which is still using VMware Data Recovery 2.0.3.4089 Build 1580266 on ESXi 5.0.0 Build 623860 (it's inherited and will be upgraded soon). It was running fine until we upgraded vCenter Server from 5.5 U2 to 5.5 Update 3b (hosts are still on 5.0.0). Now whenever we load the plugin and click connect, an authentication box appears. Entering AD credentials will simply cause the dialog to reappear over and over again.

 

If I connect directly to the ESXi host, the authentication dialog appears but prompts for the ESXi host password. Entering the root password works.

 

It appears upgrading vCenter Server to 5.5 Update 3b has removed a dependency, possibly something to do with SSLv3? Does anyone know of a work around?

 

And yes, we plan on upgrading the backup solution next month. But we need VDR to continue running until then...

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VDP 6.1.2.18 warning No VCenter found in domain in vdr-server.log

March 22, 2016, 8:47 am
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Found many Warning in /usr/local/avamar/var/vdr/server_logs/vdr-server.log

2016-03-22 17:39:31,217 WARN  [Timer_general]-vi.VCenterServiceImpl: No VCenter found in domain 'esxihost.domain.com' which has 'VirtualMachines' subDomain

2016-03-22 17:40:01,246 WARN  [Timer_general]-vi.VCenterServiceImpl: No VCenter found in domain 'esxihost.domain.com' which has 'VirtualMachines' subDomain

2016-03-22 17:40:31,270 WARN  [Timer_general]-vi.VCenterServiceImpl: No VCenter found in domain 'esxihost.domain.com' which has 'VirtualMachines' subDomain

In 'esxihost.domain.com' was local esxi host FQDN where running that VDP instance.

Anyone have ideas what is reason for this warning?

 

All services running fine.

Only found what one of backup job stuck with 92% in vcenter gui.

Thru ssh show what no running jobs.

root@vpd:~/#: mccli activity show --active

0,23000,CLI command completed successfully.

ID Status Error Code Start Time Elapsed End Time Type Progress Bytes New Bytes Client Domain

-- ------ ---------- ---------- ------- -------- ---- -------------- --------- ------ ------

 

Message was edited by: Igor Rotbart

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VDP Agent SQL Database Backup Failure - Operating system error 112(There is not enough space on the disk.).

June 6, 2016, 6:23 am
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Community,

 

I'm posting this weird error in case it helps someone else. It feels like a silly oversight on my part after finding/fixing it.

 

I was running into a reoccurring error when trying to do a database level backup on my SQL server.  I was attempting to do a database level backup using the VDP SQL agent on a SQL 2012 server.

 

The database backup failed with the following information in the VDP plugin log:

"Error: Miscellaneous error."

(Not very useful, so I began pulling logs from the appliance and reviewing them.  Not real helpful there either.

 

(The job initially failed with permissions errors until I changed the backup agent windows service to run as an account that had appropriate SQL permissions, this seemed like a 'no-brainer'.)

 

Logs

I checked the logs on the SQL server, it and the Windows Event Log and found this mirrored in both:

SQL Shows (readerrorlog):

Error: 18210, Severity: 16, State: 1.

BackupIoRequest::ReportIoError: write failure on backup device '%server name removed%_%instance name removed%_SUSDB_SQL-Production-Daily-1465216797749-3006-SQL'. Operating system error 112(There is not enough space on the disk.).

Error: 3041, Severity: 16, State: 1.

BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE SUSDB. Check the backup application log for detailed messages.

Error: 18210, Severity: 16, State: 1.

BackupVirtualDeviceFile::RequestDurableMedia: Flush failure on backup device '%server name removed%_%instance name removed%_SUSDB_SQL-Production-Daily-1465216797749-3006-SQL'. Operating system error 995(The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.).

 

 

Thoughts:

1. Free space? Maybe it needs to copy DB files?

-The database was 1.7GB.  Both the OS drive (C:) and the data drive (D:) had plenty of free space.  I can't see how there wouldn't be enough room on the VM for a copy of the database if that's what's taking place first.

 

-The VDP appliance is only at 30% utilization of his storage space.

 

2. Permissions?

-I was running the backup agent windows service as a service account who is presently a 'sysadmin' to remove permissions issues.  That same account had been doing a powershell SQL backup for a long time, that runs successfully.

 

Simple Solution

The backup agent service simply wanted to write logs to the 'C:\Program Files\avp\var\' and 'C:\Program Files\avp\var\client logs\' folders and didn't have permissions because the service account wasn't listed on the NTFS permissions.  Once I added the service account and give him write permissions, the jobs worked as expected.

 

 

Environment

VDP 6.1

vCenter 6

ESXi 5.5U2

 

SQL Server VM - Server 2012

SQL 2012

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Backup vCenter Server with VDR error -3960 (exceeded limit for holding off I/O in the frozen vm)

March 8, 2011, 3:20 am
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Hello

 

At the moment we face the problem that we can't backup our vCenter Server VM with our VDR.

We just get the error:

 

Failed to create snapshot for <vm>, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce virtual machine )

 

If I manually start a snapshot with the option to quiesce the VM the snapshot works fine.

 

I already reinstalled the tools (including reboot) but this hasn't helped.

 

At the moment we have no idea what else could be the reason for that.

 

And how you guys backup your vCenter? Also with VDR, VCB, third party like Symantec, ... ?

 

I really would appreciate  to get some tips & recommendations.

 

Regards

Patrick

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Restor vCenter 5 from Veeam Backup

May 30, 2012, 12:14 am
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We use Veeam backup 6.0 to backup alle our virtual machines.

We use VMware ESXi 5.0

Our vCenter 5.0 i installed on a virtual machine.

The vCenter server is backed up  every night by Veeam Backup.

My question is:

 

If our vCenter server crach, is it then possible to restore i from the backup that was made previus night?

We whant to make a full restore of the vCenter Server from our backup.

 

I do not know how our ESXi servers will react when the suddently see an older vCenter, we restored from backup.

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MFT corrupt but VM working normal. How is that possible?

August 15, 2012, 6:28 am
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I'm using Acronis VMProtect to back up my virtual machines.  I am trying to diagnose a warning message with Acronis technical support.  One Windows 2008 32-bit VM with 2 virtual hard disks attached backs up successfully but with the following warning message:

 

Forced sector-by-sector mode.
Additional info:
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Error code: 46
Module: 7
LineInfo: a5695862aaf8e75e
Fields:  PartitionId : 219
Message: Forced sector-by-sector mode.
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Error code: 24
Module: 7
LineInfo: 89d94b01b483dc8b
Fields:
Message: MFT bitmap is corrupted.
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So I ran chkdsk /r on both C: and D: drives and it required a reboot to run prior to the system fully booting up.  Windows performed this chkdsk and after about an hour it resumed normal operation.

 

Still having the same random warnings in Acronis VMProtect, they swear that the MFT is bad.  However the VM runs perfectly!  There's no data loss at all!!!!  So I download testdisk-6.14 and under Advanced > Boot, it says Boot sector OK, backup boot sector OK, Sectors are identical.  But if I go to Repair MFT it says "MFT and MFT mirror are bad.  Failed to repair them".

 

If the MFT is really bad, how in the world would the machine be able to boot up and operate normally with no filesystem errors reported in eventlogs or chkdsk?  I'm almost thinking this could be a false positive due to the way VMWare is "virtual" and its not really a physical disk.

 

If there is an impending disaster, whats the best way to mitigate that risk?  Cloaning the machine?

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How to backup a Physical RDM ?

January 13, 2013, 9:33 pm
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Hello All,

 

I would like to know how we could take a backup of a physical RDM ?

 

Kindly share ideas and features of the product VDP that would allow or provide a workaround for the backup of the RDM in physical mode.

 

Also anybody with the knowledge of IBM TSM could provide some steps for TSM backup for RDM in physical mode.

 

I am looking at VDP or TSM for backup.

 

Thank you in Advance !

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Bare Metal Restore of ESXi using Data Recovery Server

March 18, 2013, 8:20 am
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I was wondering if this is possible or if anyone has tried this.

ESXi 5.0 with update 1

DR Server 2.0.1

 

The idea I have is to Use DR Server on the ESXi host it will be backing up.

In other words, DR Server is a VM within the ESXi host.  So is VCenterServer by the way.

DR Server will be backing up all the VM's on the ESXi host it lies on.

It Will backup to a separate HD attached to the ESXi host, a different datastore than the VM's are on.

 

So far I have all this setup and running.  No problems backing up or restoring things.  It works well.

 

My question is ... What happens if I loose the datastore where all the VM's are stored and I need to restore the entire box.

My idea is this ... Since the Datastore the DR Server was writing to is separate, can I just rebuild the ESXi host then add DRServer  (and vcenterserver) and then add the Datastore from the original DR Server HD?  Will the catalogue rebuild and show all the original Servers so I can select them and restore them ?

 

-Thanks for any responses ...

 

-Richard

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Unable to login to VDP restore client

April 5, 2013, 3:45 am
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Hi

 

I've just recently started to use the VDP and am trying to test the file level restore functionality.

I'm unable to login to the restore client however.

 

On a VM I have a backup of, I open IE and type https://"IP of vdp:8543/flr/"

As credentials I have tried both basic and advanced login. On the basic login I try to log in with the domain administrator (domain\administrator, which is also a local administrator) . It then seems to try to connect to the vdp but after a couple of seconds a message appears:

"Login failed. HostSession is NULL"

 

If I try the advanced login instead and try to use the vCenter Credentials I get "Login failed. Invalid credential format"

I try to login with the same user (SYSTEM-DOMAIN\vdp) I created for vCenter Registration. I have tried to use both SYSTEM-DOMAIN\vdp and only vdp as a username but with the same result.

 

Any thoughts as to what might be wrong? I have tried this with the same result on several VMs, and also tried to restart the file restore service on the configuration page.

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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VDP Scheduler won't start

April 26, 2013, 5:48 am
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hi guys

 

suddenly my Backup Scheduler won't start (I can see that in status VDP configure tab). It was working fine.

I manually start it. No go.

I used command: dpnctl stop mcs - dpnctl start mcs. Same thing it won't work. Logs for this process

 

any idea what could be causing the issue? Which logs to check?

 

thanks

 

=== BEGIN === check.mcs (prestart)
check.mcs                        passed
=== PASS === check.mcs PASSED OVERALL (prestart)
Starting Administrator Server at: Fri Apr 26 08:35:49 EST 2013
Starting Administrator Server...
Started
Started
Started
Started
Started
2013-04-26 08:36:35.511:INFO::Logging to STDERR via org.mortbay.log.StdErrLog
2013-04-26 08:36:35.639:INFO::jetty-6.1.23
2013-04-26 08:36:35.697:INFO::Extract lib/axis2.war to /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_tmp/Jetty_0_0_0_0_9443_axis2.war____.w8a9ms/webapp
2013-04-26 08:36:38.852:INFO::Started SslSocketConnector@0.0.0.0:9443
Administrator Server started.
INFO: Starting Data Domain SNMP Manager....
INFO: Connecting to MCS Server: myserver.vdp.xxxxx at port: 7778...
INFO: Successfully connected to MCS Server: myserver.vdp.xxxxx at port: 7778.
INFO: No trap listeners were started, Data Domain SNMP Manager didn't start.
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LUN signature after RAID controller replacement

August 6, 2013, 5:49 pm
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I have the following scenario:

 

I got a Cisco UCS server with a LSI controller. I needed to replace the controller for another one, same specs, different model.

 

I did the physical replacement, powered on the server. ESXi booted fine, but no datastore is showing up. The datastores are on the local hard disk. There is no remote storage.

 

When I try to re-add the datastore, I got 2 mainly options:

- Keep existing signature

- Assing a new signature.

 

I'm sure both will work, and I would go with the first one.

 

However, I would like to know the impact of selecting any of those options. Like, if I resignature, will that be the best since I'm using a new hardware for RAID controller?

Or would it not matter at all if I keep the same signature?

 

I've beenr reading about these 2 options, and for local storage they don't seem to do any difference, but would like to know somebody else thoughts.

 

I'm a little afraid of assigning a new signature.

 

Thanks.

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vDR stopped backing up

August 9, 2013, 7:05 am
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I've been using VDR 2.0.1 for a few months now, with two 500GB NFS shares mapped in following the guides available. This has been working far better than the previous CIFS method I was using, and I've been happy with it until a problem that started happening this week.

 

I can no longer backup anything to one of the backup shares (the other is working fine). Every VM that tries to backup to this share fails with the following error;

 

Trouble writing to destination, error -102 (I/O Error).

 

I ran an integrity check, which first time passed ok, but second time failed with this message;

 

Can't load restore point tree for <date>, error -2249 (Could not find restore point)

 

So, I then began troubleshooting, and discovered the following;

 

If I check on the VDR console itself, both NFS shares are mounted ok as 'rw' with no errors

I can 'touch' a file on the problem share, and it creates fine

In the VDR vCenter console, there are no 'damaged' restore points listed in the 'restore' tab

If I stop datarecovery, delete the catalog files for the problem share, restart datarecovery and then run an integrity check, this completes fine and the catalog files re-create ok.

I can restore a VM fine from the share

There's plenty of space left on the shares according to the vDR appliance.

 

I've rebooted the vDR appliance (obviously) and done check on the host exporting the NFS share. No issues whatsoever. Therefore, I'm at a total loss. Of the threads i can find for others experiencing similar problems, nothing stands out. The changes suggested you make to limits.conf and datarecovery.ini I'd already done months ago, and they were working fine.

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Backup VDP appliance with veem to export data on external disk, is it a good way ?

September 3, 2013, 1:28 am
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Hi,

I'm using VDP to backup my VM.

I wish to backup these data on tape, then I 'm looking for a good solution.

I'm testing veeam to backup the VDP appliance on an external disk, then I backup this disk on tape.

 

Do you think it's a good practice ?

 

Thanks in advance.

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XXXcom.vmware.vdp2.server.error.10056.formatonvmfoundXXX VDP 5.5

May 19, 2014, 9:53 pm
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hi guys

 

I have this VDP that backups only 8 VMs, and I've been having a problem with one of them - always the same VM (vmware tools up to date, OS W2008 R2)

 

I get this error message like every  3 days, yeah the issue is fixed as soon as I consolidate the VM - from VM menu - .

 

this is what is happening I see that one VM is failing so in the Events I see this (vCenter)

 

XXXcom.vmware.vdp2.server.error.10056.formatonvmfoundXXX

 

so I found that VDP creates a snapshot not visible from snapshot manager and that creates this problem, so when I found this I have to manually run a Consolidation on this VM

 

I found this VM always having this hidden snapshot   VM_name_00001.vmdk

 

anyone knows how to fix this forever, I cannot be consolidating this VM every 3 days...

 

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VM_00001.png

 

I have like 8 VDP instances installed and believe me managing this products is very tired, I don't know any other product like Veeam so I ave no way to compared

 

thanks a lot

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