In my home lab I am attempting to manage proxy throughput by reducing the number of simultaneous backup are restore clients via the vSphere Data Protection Configuration Utility web interface. The web interface will show that the number has been reduced from 8 to the selected amount, but when I monitor the activity via the mccli utility on the VDP appliance it shows that eight VM backups are running as part of the backup job. I have not been able to test or replicate this with a clients cluster since we do not currently have any clients running VDP 6.1, and thus I am also unable to open a case on this issue. Has anyone else seen this type of behavior, or know where in the VDP appliance CLI I might be able to force this setting?
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VDP 6.1 proxy throughput not changing simultaneous client from eight
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Crash-consistent backups in VDP
Hi everybody
I have installed the vSphere Data Protection 6.1 and since few days the backup of a VM is "crash-consistent". The other VMs don't have this problem and all the backups are "application-consistent".
What is the meaning of this type of backup?
What can I do to solve this issue?
Thx in advance, sincerely Omar
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Join a Linked Mode Group After Installation vCetner 6
Hi,
Can I joined two vCSA 6 in linked mode after vCenter been installed, the use case is vMotion cross vCenter
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Can't Download VM Files using Datastore Browser in vSphere Client 5.1
I have a powered on virtual machine that I am trying to copy over into a lab environment without having to power it off. I'm not able to download the VM files using the Datastore Browser in vSphere Client. I get the error: "Expected put message. Got: ERROR". I have tried pulling them from the web based datastore browser as well with no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
-Nick Viola
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VCB & Symantec Exchange 2007 Agent
Hello,
we are in the stage of deciding to purchase vSphere Suite for our organization but have some doubt regarding VCB.
Currently we have Exchagne 2007 MB server on a physical server and we are using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 with Exchagne Agent for Backup. This Agent allows individual Mailbox restore for each user (as shown in attached).
Now I've heard alot about VCB benefits and if am not wrong with VCB i do not need to install seperate Agents on each VM for Backup software to do its job rather VCB presents the VM snapshot and backup software will then do the backup, am i right?
most importantly here now is will i still be able to do individual mailbox restore with VCB only? or do i need the exchagne agent still? this particular picture of how to get this individual mailbox restore working is not clear to me and how VCB works and around which needed component is not clear at all. Could someone just tell me how to achieve Exchagne or even Active Directorly single Object / Mailbox restore with VCB AND/OR Symantec requred agents.
so basically do i need VCB + Symantec Exchange Agent or just VCB or VCB and somethnig else?
Lastly, is it possible to have VCB and Symantec Server on same physical server? any problem?
Thanks in advance.
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Backup Exec Meida Server as a VM Guest
We've been having some hardware issues with our current Backup Exec 12.5 running on a Dell 4400 server. So we thought we would give it a try to P2V the server to a Dell 2600 ESX 3.5.
Tape Drive - Exabyte VXA-3 SCSI tape Drive
Controller in Host - Adaptec SCSI Ultra 160 29160 Controller
On the very frist test backup after p2v conversion and moving of the SCSI controller card backup performance was terrible. About 100MB / per minute.
I had feared this and thought I might just need to go back to a standalone dedicated media server.
However the very next day's backup performance and for the following week was at about 600MB / per minute. This was even better than the old physical Dell 4400 Server we had.
Then all of a sudden about a week later backup speeds now have returned back about 100MB / per min. A job that uses to take about 38Min to run now takes 4 hours.
If this is not possible to have a media server as a guest talking to the SCSI card in the ESX 3.5 host then so be it. But it worked for over a week then stopped.
The only thing that changed is I added a 300GB virtual disk to the Backup Exec Server 2003 32bit sp2 media server. So that I could do so disk to folder backups. Since this speeds will not go above 100MB / per minute.
My backups of disk to disk folder backups are around the 600MB speed. This tells me the bottle neck is not in the network but in the SCSI communications of the tape drive most likely.
I'm backing up the current guest server as well as other guests as well as other Physical Servers.
Any ideas from the community would be greatly appreciated.
If I just need to bunt on the idea and go back to just a physical dedicated server I can do that as well.
Thank you.
Randy
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Protocol error from VMX
I am getting a protocol error from VMX when running a vcb backup script that creates the snapshot initially.
in vc, Create virtual machine snapshot is giving out this error
A general system error occured: Protocol error from VMX
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Restoring vCenter with vDR to ESXi
Ok, I've looked and looked, and I know I can't be the first to try this. Here goes. I backed up all my VM's on the single ESXi host I have running to a NAS device with vDR. I've moved my ESXi (flash card) do a different server with the same specs. Now I'm trying to restore the VM's to the local storage on the ESXi host. vCenter is a VM which is not running until I can get it restored.
When I try and connect to the vDR appliance I get the following error.
I've rebooted the appliance and I've edited the /etc/host file with the ESXi host info. I have not redeployed the appliance yet. Will do that now and post the results.
If anyone has any insight please do tell and thanks.
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VDR - 2TB disk - CIFS...
Hi everyone,
I have a 2TB disk tha tI want to use with VDR.
I know the limitation of 500GB / store.
But what if I create multiple CIFS Share for this 2TB drive, each of these share being 500GB ?
Do you think I would get issues on the long term ?
thanks
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Datastore Inaccessible after failure
We had a failure overnight, I don't know what caused it but all hosts (9 in total) went into a half failed state in that they weren't responding in vCenter but could be pinged. I couldn't restart the management agent from the console so was forced to restart them via iLO.
Once I got all hosts back up, we've been left with one single datastore showing as "Inaccessible" and nothing I seem to do will kick it back into life. I'm not overfly familiar with the logs but it appears to be timing out
VMKernal.log
cpu38:68195)LVM: 15061: Failed to open device naa.600c0ff0001e3c7457b0c45a01000000:1 : Timeout
The Datastore is located on an HP MSA 2040, other volumes from said SAN that are mounted on various ESX hosts elsewhere or Hyper-V Servers have remained up so I know the SAN itself is OK.
I've rebooted all hosts in the cluster (one by one) just to be sure they came up cleanly
The iSCSI targets for this volume all seem to show Active but I did try to remove the targets and re-add them successfully
I had a spare server that I've built from scratch that once I added the iSCSI targets displayed the Datastore in the same Inaccessible state
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VCB Acquiring Disk Lease for snapshot failed
Hi,
everytime i´ve tried to Backup my vm´s with VCB i get a error message like " Acquiring Disk Lease for snapshot failed". Before this error, seems that it works well (snapshot will be created and removed...).
My Vm´s running on a netapp NFS Share with ESX 3.5 Hosts.
Anyone an idea what´s wrong ??
Thanks
Regards
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Failed to export the disk: One of the parameters supplied is invalid
Hi!
I can not backup my VM, because the VCB stop when it start's backup Hard Disk 2. (scsi0-1-0-WEB-clone_1.vmdk)
VM settings:
Guest OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (32-bit)
Hard Disk 1: 30 GB
Hard Disk 2: 1024 GB
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework>
vcbMounter.exe -h virtualcenter -u xxx -p yyy -a moref:vm-789 -r H:\HR_Web -t fullvm -m nbd
Current working directory: C:\Program
Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework
HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCo
resPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1.
HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 phys
ical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs.
Using system libcrypto, version 9
0709F
SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStor
e: Subject mismatch: VMware vs virtualcenter
SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStor
e: The remote host certificate has these problems:
The host name used for the connection does not match the subject name on the h
ost certificate
A certificate in the host's chain is based on an untrusted root.
read registry value. Assuming verification is disabled. LastError = 0
SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStor
e: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed despite the
error
Copying "[Datastore03_SATA] WEB-clone/WEB-clone.vmx":
0%=====================50%=====================100%
**************************************************
Copying "[Datastore03_SATA] WEB-clone/WEB-clone.nvram":
0%=====================50%=====================100%
**************************************************
Copying "[Datastore03_SATA] WEB-clone//vmware-55.log":
0%=====================50%=====================100%
**************************************************
Copying "[Datastore03_SATA] WEB-clone//vmware-56.log":
0%=====================50%=====================100%
**************************************************
Copying "[Datastore03_SATA] WEB-clone//vmware-57.log":
0%=====================50%=====================100%
**************************************************
Copying "[Datastore03_SATA] WEB-clone//vmware-58.log":
0%=====================50%=====================100%
**************************************************
Copying "[Datastore03_SATA] WEB-clone//vmware-59.log":
0%=====================50%=====================100%
**************************************************
Copying "[Datastore03_SATA] WEB-clone//vmware-54.log":
0%=====================50%=====================100%
*************************************************
Copying "[Datastore03_SATA] WEB-clone//vmware.log":
0%=====================50%=====================100%
**************************************************
Converting "H:\HR_Web\scsi0-0-0-WEB-clone.vmdk" (compact file):
0%=====================50%=====================100%
**************************************************
Converting "H:\HR_Web\scsi0-1-0-WEB-clone_1.vmdk" (compact file):
0%=====================50%=====================100%
**************************************************
Error: Failed to export the di
sk: One of the parameters supplied is invalid
An error occurred, cleaning up
...
Deleted directory H:\HR_Web
TKS!
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Deleting all snapshots causing server to eat all availiable disk space.
Hi,
I deleted all the snapshots on one of our servers and as usual the server went to 95% and then sits there until it completes. This time though it has eaten an adition 150gb and is about to take out one of my SAN LUNs? Is this normal!!!
Anyway what can i do to save the servers if anything?
HELP ME PLEASE!!
Thanks
David
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VDR and Firewall ports?
Do any ports require to be open for VDR to function through a Firewall. I have 2 ESX in my DMZ but the VDR jobs always fail for them. I see that VDR takes the snapshot but then it fails to copy the snapshot
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another task is already in progress
We have using CA Arcserve and VCB to perform the backup of VM's
Recently i've noticed that some VM's are no longer reporting performance data in the "Performance" Tab of VCenter.
Furthering digging, show the account used to perform the backup snapshots is causing an an error "Another task is already in progress"
I suspect one of back jobs has been cancelled and the snapshot 'clean up'process that arcserve uses has left the VM in some state....other than normal.
What steps can I take to fix this error...i've tried rebooting the VM but this don't fix the issue.
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Howto set up BackupExec 2010 to use SAN transport mode with vSphere 4?
Hi
I feel like this question should be answered in at least ten knowledgebase articles and other documentations, yet i seem to be unable to find any of them ...
I have BackupExec 2010 and vSphere 4.0 Enterprise Plus (3 ESX 4 servers). So far, I've been testing the nbd transport mode, which works, but gets slow sometimes on VMs with disks >100GB (i read that this is a problem with the service console of vmware esx 4 - not sure though).
Anyhow, since I have all the necessary hardware on site, i thought i could as well connect the server running backupexec (and vsphere server) to the san directly using FC...
... but i can't find a guide, neither from vmware nor from backupexec nor EMC, on what i should pay attention while doing this. Those questions came up before I've even touched the FC-Controller:
- vsphere 4.0 has this storage API thingy ... backupexec 2010 apparently supports it. does that mean that i don't have to install vmware VCB?
- I'm running backupexec 2010 and vSphere Server on the same box...any problems with that?
- i feel really uncomfortable that windows might write something to my vmfs luns, and destroying them with it... (like auto-signing or auto-initializing of new disks). how do i prevent windows from doing so?
- i read about a problem with multi-pathing and san backup mode ... i could just install EMC powerpath, which would handle the multipathing. does that work with vsphere storage api?
any answers (or links to documents i'm apparently unable to find) are very much appreciated.
best regards,
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Creating a snapshot with quiesce guest succeedes, but triggers vss-error in eventvwr on server 2008 r2 DC
Hi
I'm trying to backup my virtual DC, running Server 2008 R2. The Computer has all windows updates and Vmware Tools installed. When creating a snapshot (quiesce guest file system is active, but snapshop the VM's memory is not), the creation of the snapshot succeeds, but i get an error and a warning in the event viewer of the VM. The errors are triggered during the snapshot processing.
The error and warning are followed by a series of informational ESENT-Events, freezing all other Shadow copy instances. So the lsass AD is the only one raising an error.
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Error 489, Source ESENT:
lsass (480) An attempt to open the file "c:\Windows\NTDS\ntds.dit" for read only access failed with system error 32 (0x00000020): "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ". The open file operation will fail with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8).
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Warning 8229, Source VSS:
A VSS writer has rejected an event with error 0x800423f4, The writer experienced a non-transient error. If the backup process is retried,
the error is likely to reoccur.
. Changes that the writer made to the writer components while handling the event will not be available to the requester. Check the event log for related events from the application hosting the VSS writer.
Operation:
PostSnapshot Event
Context:
Execution Context: Writer
Writer Class Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
Writer Name: NTDS
Writer Instance ID: {8231a194-b132-41b1-97e9-7c3f8333780d}
Command Line: C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
Process ID: 480
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Because of that, I'm afraid that the backup of my AD might be inconsistent.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Thanks in advanced!
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esXpress Backup on ESXi 4.1 ?
Recently our company purchased a whole ESXi setup (3x HP DL360 servers, HP P4300 iSCSI SAN etc) which we have running fine. I wans't involved in the specing of this (despite being the IT person) as they wanted it done by project person here instead.....
Anyway, we tried installing ESX4 which is what the plan was, but because they have no local storage except a 4gb flash card, we couldn't install ESX. Instead, I managed to install ESXi 4.1 fine no worries as this is the way VMWare is going now anyway.
Now the problem is this. Part of what they bought here was esXpress Backup. Now this only works on ESX because of the service console which prior to 4.1, ESXi didn't have, but in 4.1 it does have a Service Console of sorts, but I still can't install it.
Any ideas?
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Larger than 1TB Datastores
Hey everyone,
I've had 1.2 running without any major issues for a good 3 months now.. I'm curious however to know if anyone has tried using a datastore larger than 1TB. I know the recommended size for local storage is 1TB (500GB for VMDK), but I'd be interested in hearing other people's experiences using bigger datastores (2TB, 3TB or more..)..
It's really nice to see VDR growing up, but unless I can backup my entire infrastructure (20+TB), I may have to go with an 3rd party provider... I don't want to be managing multiple VDR instances.
Best,
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Local disk? On Host being backed-up, Host hosting VDR, or any datastore managed by VCenter?
In January I will be installing 3 proliants DL380G7 running ESXi 4.1 Essential Plus. We do not have a SAN. We would like to use data recovery to backup Host#1 onto Host#2 (which would run VDR and VCenter) and restore to Host#3 for DR purposes. Host#2 would also run our tape backup jobs.
Does this scenario sound plausible? Could select to backup directly from Host#1 to a datastore located on Host#3 using VDR?
Thanks
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