I'm trying to understand if a snapshots of a windows 2008 R2 VM that's running inside an ESXi 5.1 with  just a scsi disk is application consistent or not.

Reading here it seems yes, it's app consistent but there's a couple of things that I do not understand.

What does it mean: Restore must be done using the backup application’s guest agent. https://communities.vmware.com/The vSphere APIs for Data Protection provide no host agent support for this.

If I restore the entire VM, is this consistent or not?

First attempt/test at backing up an Exchange server and in VDP reports it says its Success but in Task Failures it says 'VDP: An unexpected error occured with the following error code: 10020'.  I know that VDP doesnt supports guest-level backups of Microsoft Exchange/SQL Servers but that doesnt stop it from backing up the VM itself?  That is i wont be able to restore just Exchnage or SQL but I can restore the entire VM?  That being the case, is the error because of this lack of guest-level backup support?

Hey Guys,

I'm trying out the new VDP 6.0 to see if it can replace our existing backup solution and so far so good except for File Level Restores.

I manage to get the VM's backed up and I know that in order to do a "File Level Restore" or FLR, I have to connect to https://<IP_of_your_VDP_appliance>:8543/flr from the VM itself.  I would like to know if I can do a restore from another machine like my own workstation?  This would make it a little easier for me or the helpdesk guys to perform restores but I can't figure out how to do this. 

Anyone?

Nick

Hello,

I've got a problem. I'd connected iscsi target from FreeNAS as datastore to vmware host (ESXi 5.0.0) and used 100GB (30% of all capaticy) for D drive (data) in windows server virtual machine. Accidently I've deleted this datastore and didn't notice info about removing files that are associated to virtual machines. After all I reconnect this datastore, but it's empty. The capaticy is 300GB and the whole datastore is empty (in datastore browser). I'm wondering now is is possible to recover this file, because when I logged to my FreeNAS host and run 'df -h' I got info that the extent which is associated with my target has still 100GB used (which are all of my lost files). Does it mean that these files are stil located in this extent? Maybe there is a way to get my files recovered?

Thanks for help!

gary

Hello,

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

At the attachment is the log file.

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

Thanks

Dennis

Hello everyone,

I've deployed VDP 6.1 and now i would like to move it to faster datastore. Its 12 TB appliance (12x1TB disk) , is it possible with simple storage vMotion?

Thank you for your help!

Regards,

Hi,

I have depolyed VDP 6.1 and have it up and running. now im trying to connect to the appliance frpm vsphere Web client. After pressing connect the screen goes grey and nothing happens.

No error message no time out, just grayed out with timeglas not moving.

DNS is ok

account for vdp in vcenter ok

all services for appliance are ok

vcenter 5.5 ESXI 5.5

Regards

mgd

Hello there.

Im at the VDP configuration stage now (...:8543/vdp-configure) and I cannot find the correct timezone (I need UTC+7). I usually use Asia/Krasnoyarsk tz, there are a lot of UTC+7 zones here Valid timeZone Values and in the SLES itself BUT no such zones at the VDP configure web interface. Can anyone tell me why? May be I can finish configuration with wrong timezone and change it later by recreating /etc/localtime link or in the vdp vm console? Or should I choose correct timezone during the initial configuration?

Facing issue with VDP 6.1 when initiating backup. Refer to attached logs.

2016-05-17T04:44:23.519-10:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: Unable to locate appropriate transport mode to open disk. Error 13 (You do not have access rights to this file) at 4559.

Failed to open NBD extent.

2016-05-17T04:44:23.511-10:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to connect to server  host:902

2016-05-17T04:38:04.477-10:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:2016-05-17T04:38:04.464+10:00 error -[7FAC95207700] [Originator@6876 sub=transport] Mounting VM vm-496 using transport hotadd failed : Could not connect to ESX host host04.ad.bgep.co.uk: Failed to connect to server host04:902.

Hello,

I am trying to upgrade my VDP 6.1 appliance to 6.1.1. The iso is not being detected when mounted so I was going to run the hotfix. However, I cannot upload the hotfix files to my appliance via ssh. I am able to log in to the vdp-configure web portal and the vmware console using the root account. When I try to log in using putty or winscp it is saying access denied.

Also, all the potential solutions I'm finding via google appear to be broken. I get this error when trying to access the vmware kb articles:  1$deletedMessageForViewDocumentPage

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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

Hello !

I have a problem.

Every day I see error for one of my servers in "Reports": 

2016-07-05T06:00:47.971+06:00 error -[7F2F3FA5E700] [Originator@6876 sub=transport]

   Cannot use mode hotadd to access [Cisco2-datastore] FileSrv1/FileSrv1_1.vmdk: Cannot mount using this method.

   (Mounting VM vm-3198 using transport hotadd failed : Cannot access datastore for one of the disks of Virtual Machine FileSrv1..)

In the same time, I havn't this error for other servers.

If i'll be backing up all virtual machines to a Data Domain, what size does my VDP storage need to be on the host storage system? Do I need to calculate it based on the VMs that will be backed up?

hi all,

sorry for possibly repeating question, but maybe someone have done backup to dropbox or doodle drive using esxi script or Linux machine?

Or I will need to have windows machine with esxi-cli and powershell?

maybe someone has some sample script for the same or some backup?

Thank you for a help or some link to material.

P.S. I do not want to use some third party like (http://www.cloudbacko.com/vmware-esxi-backup.jsp https://www.ahsay.com/jsp/en/home/index.jsp)

Hi,

I tried to upgrade from 6.1.2.19 to 6.1.3, in order to upgrade vmware to 6.5

It failed, because after upgrade I'm still in 6.1.2 and MCS service is down.

Itried to retart or force retore it, without success.

Here is what I found in log :

2017/01/19-19:47:50 dpnctl: INFO: subsystems to act upon: mcs

2017/01/19-19:47:50 dpnctl: INFO: subsystems not to act upon: maint, cron, firewall, axionfs, sched, avi, emt, gsan

2017/01/19-19:47:50 /bin/touch /var/lock/subsys/zzdpn

2017/01/19-19:47:50 INFO: environment variable USERNAME is undefined or empty

2017/01/19-19:47:50 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/ssh-add /home/dpn/.ssh/dpnid && /tmp/dpnctl-run-self.5310'

2017/01/19-19:47:51 dpnctl: INFO: ======= dpnctl 7.2.80-118 (1.139) RESTARTING at 2017/01/19-20:47:51 CET (UTC +0100), running as admin =======

2017/01/19-19:47:51 dpnctl: INFO: log file time stamps are in UTC; local time is 2017/01/19-20:47:51 CET (UTC +0100)

2017/01/19-19:47:51 dpnctl: INFO: PATH=/opt/emc-tools/bin:/usr/local/avamar/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/avamar/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/apache/bin:/usr/local/ssl/bin:/opt/vmware/bin

2017/01/19-19:47:51 dpnctl: INFO: Argument list: "--mcs_user=root" "start" "mcs"

2017/01/19-19:47:51 dpnctl: INFO: subsystems to act upon: mcs

2017/01/19-19:47:51 dpnctl: INFO: subsystems not to act upon: maint, cron, firewall, axionfs, sched, avi, emt, gsan

2017/01/19-19:47:51 INFO: environment variable USERNAME is undefined or empty

2017/01/19-19:47:51 [ pid = 5371 ]

2017/01/19-19:47:51 /usr/bin/ssh-add -l

2017/01/19-19:47:51 The agent has no identities.

2017/01/19-19:47:51 INFO: environment variable USERNAME is undefined or empty

2017/01/19-19:47:51 [ pid = 5371 ]

2017/01/19-19:47:51 /usr/bin/ssh-add -l

2017/01/19-19:47:51 The agent has no identities.

2017/01/19-19:47:51 /usr/bin/ssh-add /home/admin/.ssh/dpnid

2017/01/19-19:47:51 Identity added: /home/admin/.ssh/dpnid (/home/admin/.ssh/dpnid)

2017/01/19-19:47:51 [ pid = 5371 ]

2017/01/19-19:47:51 /usr/bin/ssh-add -l

2017/01/19-19:47:51 3072 dc:c8:3e:84:f5:99:88:b7:49:07:3f:b8:8b:ee:be:34 [MD5] /home/admin/.ssh/dpnid (RSA)

2017/01/19-19:47:51 dpnctl: INFO: no update context, so not checking for MCS and EMS restore indication

2017/01/19-19:47:51 gsan status check:

2017/01/19-19:47:51 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BEGIN

2017/01/19-19:47:51 server up: idle

2017/01/19-19:47:51 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - END

2017/01/19-19:47:51 ([ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --test ; echo $? >/tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371) >/tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371 2>&1

2017/01/19-19:47:53 dpnctl: INFO: "([ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --test ; echo $? >/tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371) >/tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371 2>&1" - exit status 0

2017/01/19-19:47:53 /bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371

2017/01/19-19:47:53 [ "/bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371" exit status = 0 ]

2017/01/19-19:47:53 dpnctl: INFO: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BEGIN

2017/01/19-19:47:53 INFO: Administrator Server status: down

2017/01/19-19:47:53 dpnctl: INFO: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - END

2017/01/19-19:47:53 /bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371 2>&1

2017/01/19-19:47:53 [ "/bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371 2>&1" exit status = 0 ]

2017/01/19-19:47:53 dpnctl: INFO: "[ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --test" exit status = 2

2017/01/19-19:47:53 rm -f /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371 /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371

2017/01/19-19:47:53 dpnctl: INFO: "rm -f /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371 /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371" - exit status 0

2017/01/19-19:47:53 rpm -q --quiet connectemc

2017/01/19-19:47:53 dpnctl: INFO: "rpm -q --quiet connectemc" - exit status 1

2017/01/19-19:47:53 gsan status check:

2017/01/19-19:47:53 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BEGIN

2017/01/19-19:47:54 server up: idle

2017/01/19-19:47:54 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - END

2017/01/19-19:47:54 dpnctl: INFO: Starting MCS...

2017/01/19-19:47:54 dpnctl: INFO: [no passthrough options found for program "mcserver.sh" in context "start"]

2017/01/19-19:47:54 dpnctl: INFO: To monitor progress, run in another window: tail -f /tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-output-5371

2017/01/19-19:47:54 ([ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --start ; echo $? >/tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-status-5371) >/tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-output-5371 2>&1

2017/01/19-19:48:02 dpnctl: INFO: "([ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --start ; echo $? >/tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-status-5371) >/tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-output-5371 2>&1" - exit status 0

2017/01/19-19:48:02 /bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-output-5371

2017/01/19-19:48:02 [ "/bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-output-5371" exit status = 0 ]

2017/01/19-19:48:02 /bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-status-5371 2>&1

2017/01/19-19:48:02 [ "/bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-status-5371 2>&1" exit status = 0 ]

2017/01/19-19:48:02 output of "[ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --start":

2017/01/19-19:48:02 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BEGIN

2017/01/19-19:48:02 Database server is running...

2017/01/19-19:48:02 INFO: Starting messaging service.

2017/01/19-19:48:02 INFO: Started messaging service.

2017/01/19-19:48:02 === BEGIN === check.mcs (prestart)

2017/01/19-19:48:02 check.mcs                        passed

2017/01/19-19:48:02 === PASS === check.mcs PASSED OVERALL (prestart)

2017/01/19-19:48:02 Starting Administrator Server at: Thu Jan 19 20:47:59 CET 2017

2017/01/19-19:48:02 Starting Administrator Server...

2017/01/19-19:48:02 java.net.SocketException: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Error constructing implementation (algorithm: Default, provider: SunJSSE, class: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$DefaultSSLContext)

2017/01/19-19:48:02 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - END

2017/01/19-19:48:03 dpnctl: ERROR: error return from "[ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --start" - exit status 1

2017/01/19-19:48:03 rm -f /tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-status-5371 /tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-output-5371

2017/01/19-19:48:03 ([ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --test ; echo $? >/tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371) >/tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371 2>&1

2017/01/19-19:48:04 dpnctl: INFO: "([ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --test ; echo $? >/tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371) >/tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371 2>&1" - exit status 0

2017/01/19-19:48:04 /bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371

2017/01/19-19:48:04 [ "/bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371" exit status = 0 ]

2017/01/19-19:48:04 dpnctl: INFO: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BEGIN

2017/01/19-19:48:04 INFO: Administrator Server status: down

2017/01/19-19:48:04 dpnctl: INFO: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - END

2017/01/19-19:48:04 /bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371 2>&1

2017/01/19-19:48:04 [ "/bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371 2>&1" exit status = 0 ]

2017/01/19-19:48:04 dpnctl: INFO: "[ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --test" exit status = 2

2017/01/19-19:48:04 rm -f /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371 /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371

2017/01/19-19:48:04 dpnctl: INFO: "rm -f /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-5371 /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-5371" - exit status 0

2017/01/19-19:48:04 dpnctl: INFO: [see log file "/usr/local/avamar/var/log/dpnctl.log"]

2017/01/19-19:48:04 rm -f /usr/local/avamar/var/dpnctl.lck

2017/01/19-19:48:04 ======= dpnctl 7.2.80-118 (1.139), running as admin, RETURNING at 2017-01-19 20:48:04 CET =======

2017/01/19-19:48:04 [user "admin"] program (pid 5371) exit status = 1 (error)

2017/01/19-19:48:04 ======= dpnctl 7.2.80-118 (1.139), running as root, ENDING at 2017-01-19 20:48:04 CET =======

2017/01/19-19:48:04 [user "root"] program (pid 5310) exit status = 1 (error)

I always see this : INFO: environment variable USERNAME is undefined or empty

I'm able to connect via the web client, but can't even call a rollback.

I also destroyed my snapshot, because at the end of the update process everything seemed to be good.

If someone can help me ! Otherwise I think I will have to delete and reinstall it, loosing my backups...

I was attempting to increase disk size on the primary disk of a VM. I followed instructions to delete all snapshots. After I noticed that the disk type went from Thin provisioned to Thick provisioned. After increasing the disk size in the VM properties I powered on the machine and received multiple errors:

An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM <NAME>.

Failed to start the virtual machine.

Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/NUMBER/NAME.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

The system cannot find the file specified

VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/NUMBER/NAME-000003.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again.

Module DiskEarly power on failed.

Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/NUMBER/NAME_4-000004.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

The system cannot find the file specified

VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/NUMBER/NAME.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again.

I have attempted to follow the instructions to recreate the vmdk file, but have had no success. Is there any other option to get this machine back?

in my program,  i wang to automatic download  vmx file from vSphere Server  for  backuping, how to do it  ? I can get ns2__VirtualMachineConfigInfo from vSphere Server , but it is very difficulty to convert the  ns2__VirtualMachineConfigInfo to vmx file。pelease give me some advise, thanks

Hello,

I'm using Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2. Backup of VMs in ESXi fails due to license problems ("Processing Win7-VM Error: Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation.").

I'm using free license of ESXi 5.5.0 (2403361).

Any hint how to solve the problem is very welcome... :-)

Thx

Pino

Hello all,

We are trying to have VDP appliance take backup's of the VM's in vcenter.

Now there is NAS(running Windows Server storage) on which we have created a NFS share and mounted it to one of the hosts in vcenter. The VDP appliance is deployed on the same datastore and we intend to use the same datastore as backup destination for the vm backups.

We are now seeing a behaviour such that when backup jobs are started the vdp appliance reboots itself and we lose connectivity as well. looking at the tasks in vcenter we see that the 'reconfigure virtual machine  (target:vdp appliance)' fails with the error 'query send failed'.

Could this be an issue with NFS datastore being mounted in host with NFS protocol or something else? The appliance rebooting is just strange.

I have successfully signed the OVF package with ovftool 4.2. The certificate was signed by a Root CA.

Now the problem is that vSphere Web Client runs into the following error during Deploy OVF Template.

Any help is greatly appreciated.