When VEEAM backs-up the server it takes a snapshot, when the back-up is complete it removes the snapshot, this then causes the server to hang and loose connectivity for anywhere up to 1 hour, thus causing an outage to end users.

I have approached VEEAM and they advised this was HA monitoring, I have disabled this but still the issue occurs.

I have also disabled CBT (Change Block Tracking) in the VEEAM back-up job which requires that all snapshots be removed, the same thing happens.

The odd thing is, this does not occur on every single back-up, almost on a monthly basis.

Any feedback or input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

San

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Backup job failing - Error 3 (One of the parameters was invalid)

April 17, 2015, 7:08 am

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Hello,

as stated above my backup job is failing and I don't know why.

From the vSphere Web Client I get the following message on the task console:

VDP server execution error code: 10055

And from the logs I deducted that the important part is the one below:

/usr/local/avamarclient/var/Backup_test....log

2015-04-17T18:55:18.478-05:-30 avvcbimage Info <9666>: Available transport modes are file:san:hotadd:nbdssl:nbd

2015-04-17T18:55:18.478-05:-30 avvcbimage Info <9667>: Calling ConnectEx with servername=10.64.208.104 vmxspec=moref=vm-13 on port 443 snapshot(snapshot-26)

2015-04-17T18:55:18.478-05:-30 avvcbimage Info <9668>: virtual machine will be connected readonly

2015-04-17T18:55:18.478-05:-30 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_ConnectEx: Establish connection using (null).

2015-04-17T18:55:18.478-05:-30 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Connect: Establish connection.

2015-04-17T18:55:18.478-05:-30 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: A thumbprint is required for SSL certificate validation. vixDiskLib.c line 2446

2015-04-17T18:55:18.478-05:-30 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Connect: Failed to allocate connection. Error 3 (One of the parameters was invalid) at 3914.

All my software if version 6.0.

If there is anymore information I can provide please tell me.

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Crash-consistent backups in VDP

April 21, 2016, 4:09 am

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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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VDP scripting

August 22, 2014, 2:21 am

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Hi,

Is there a scripting solution for managing vdp appliance ?

ex : powercli, powershell, avamar ... ?

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ghettoVCB script not removing snapshots. Please help!

April 7, 2010, 7:17 am

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Hello everyone, I have ESXi 4.0 up and running with about 5 guest machines. I've set up ghettoVCB.sh to backup one very important vm machine but I'm running into problems.

I have mounted an NFS share to the esxi host which I'm using as a destination path for my backups, I've set up crontabs to run on the host server as explained in the ghettoVCB guide. When the cron job runs at night it creates a log which i check every morning when I come in. However, the log says that it has removed the snapshot :

Clone: 100% done.

2010-04-07 00:30:58 -- info: Removing snapshot from Orion ...

but when I navigate to the "Orion" folder on the host server I find a bunch of '---delta' files that were not removed, so next time ghettoVCB runs it fails to backup saying that a snapshot for "Orion" already exists. What can be causing this issue? I 've been trying to figure this out for a while, any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Commvault 9 VSA and vStorage API & VCB

July 11, 2011, 5:33 pm

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I've been pilot testing Commvault 9 VSA with both VCB and vStorage API method and have enounctered 2 issues.

I've found an issue where if you try to backup a VM via vStorage that has virtual disks across multiple datastores the backup will not run resutling with an error: "MACHINE skipped Error with Virtual Machine change tracking. It may be necessary to power cycle the vm, or contact VMware support regarding the QueryChangedDiskAreas API. "

We have not had a chance to enable CBT for any VMs since we upgraded to CV9 and enabling CBT requires an outage. We have been able to backup VMs with Full and Incremental WITHOUT CBT but this only works on VMs that are contained on one datastore. Has anyone else noticed this issue with Commvault and been able to fix? I don't know if enabling CBT will actually fix it or now but there's probably atleast one VM I can do this on but using CBT would be something new here so I would have to tread with extreme caution!

VCB seems to spool it's files to C:\Program Files\Commvault\Galaxy\iDataAgent\JobResults\iDataAgent\VirtualServerAgent\..... which of course results in running out of space and the job failing. I will take this up with the consultant that helped us but thought this might be useful for others to know.

Cheers,

Dave

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Maximum snapshot size

March 27, 2012, 12:12 am

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Hello,

I'm currently evaluating the different methods in order to protect one of our virtual machines. I have a virtualised FileNet server and I want to take snapshots of it. I have tried creating snapshots but I get an 'unspecified error' from the backup software. A quick search shows that it may be down to the block sizes on the vmware datastore being insufficent, is this correct? The virtual machine is # 2TB and a file backup takes too long. The question I suppose is, is there an upper limit for snapshots in vSphere?

Many Thanks

Rich

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How to properly remove VDP ?

September 28, 2012, 2:16 am

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Hi,

how can I completly and properly remove VDP appliance ?

Destrying the virtual machine doesn't change nothing, vpd still apear in the web client.

Thank for your help

Theju

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Problem with consolidation, "Cannot allocate memory"

October 14, 2012, 2:13 am

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I have a big problem with consolidation VM disks, and with VDR at all.

A few days ago VDR was trying to make backup and remove snapshhoot on mail server (1 TB disk), and result was a new 219 delta disks in one night!

Another result of that was that my connection with vCenter is going doing after few seconds I am connected.

After many hours I realize that connection is going down becouse mail server (with 219 disks) is in inventory, althouh it is not powered on.

I can connet directly on esx host, remove VM from inventory and then I can connet on vCenter with that host.

Automatic consolidation did not work (Cannot allocate memory) so I try to manually clone this disk with vmkfstools but after 52% I get message:

"Failed to clone disk: Cannot allocate memory (786441)."

I tried with thin disk (vmkfstools -i ... -d thin) but nothing.

I tried to set parameter VMFS3.MaxHeapSizeMB in advanced settings on maximum.

I even upgraded esx and vCenter on 5.1 version.

I appreciate any advice.

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Can't Download VM Files using Datastore Browser in vSphere Client 5.1

July 11, 2013, 2:39 pm

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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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VDP 5.5 failing to backup VM. Snapshot error.

December 12, 2013, 12:06 pm

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Good day,

I'm using vSphere Data Protection basic 5.5 to backup my VMs. Some of my backup job failing to backup. Error from client log file:

2013-12-11T21:01:09.512-5:00 avvcbimage Warning <18652>: Too many extra snapshot files (1) were found on this Windows VMs datastore. This can cause a problem for the backup or restore.
2013-12-11T21:01:09.512-5:00 avvcbimage Info <18678>: Extracted NEW vmnumber1-flat.vmdk base disk from the VMX file
2013-12-11T21:01:09.512-5:00 avvcbimage FATAL <0000>: [IMG0002] The datastore information from VMX '[Datastore1] NEW vmnumber1/vmnumber1.vmx' will not permit a restore or backup.
2013-12-11T21:01:09.512-5:00 avvcbimage Info <9772>: Starting graceful (staged) termination, Too many pre-existing snapshots on the datastore will not permit a restore or backup. (wrap-up stage)

No snapshots present on that VM.

No delta files in the vm folder.

Tried consolidating but still no luck.

Any help/pointers is appreciated.

-Ali

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Last hfscheck failed with result MSG_ERR_HFSCHECKERRORS

January 14, 2014, 9:07 pm

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Hi,

For few days VDP has not been able to complete integrity check launched from

web client so I tried running it manually:

1. Stop all VDP services (dpnctl stop)

2. Unmount the mount point (umount /data0X)

3. Run xfs_check (xfs_check /dev/sdxy)

4. Mount data0X (mount -a)

5. start services (dpnctl start all)

6. stop maintenance services (dpnctl stop maint)

7. create checkpoint (avmaint checkpoint --ava)

8. Run full hfscheck (avmaint hfscheck --full --ava)

8b. check hfscheck (avmaint hfscheckstatus --ava)

9. Start maint (dpnctl start maint)

Ref: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2271165

But every time I end up with error:

Last hfscheck failed with result MSG_ERR_HFSCHECKERRORS : started Tue Jan 14 16:02:19 2014 ended Tue Jan 14 20:42:22 2014, nodes queried/replied/total(1/1/1)

VDP version is 5.5.5.180

Any ideas what to try next?

Clean install is also possible, but I'd like to know the root cause for this and avoid it in the future.

Thanks!

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Please, help my VDP DIsk full issues.

November 2, 2016, 9:18 pm

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My VDP version is 6.1(based EMC).

VDP Backup schedule is not running, because that appliance state is "admin" status.

"gsan" service was degraded. From the logs I can see it might caused by disk full, but even I cleared all my restore points, disk space won't be reclaimed because appliance status is "admin".

Here are some of my VDP state, anyone can help? Thank you so much.

root@vdp:~/#: dpnctl status

Identity added: /home/dpn/.ssh/dpnid (/home/dpn/.ssh/dpnid)

dpnctl: INFO: gsan status: degraded

dpnctl: INFO: MCS status: up.

dpnctl: INFO: emt status: up.

dpnctl: INFO: Backup scheduler status: up.

dpnctl: INFO: axionfs status: down.

dpnctl: INFO: Maintenance windows scheduler status: enabled.

dpnctl: INFO: Unattended startup status: enabled.

dpnctl: INFO: avinstaller status: up.

dpnctl: INFO: [see log file "/usr/local/avamar/var/log/dpnctl.log"]

root@vdp:~/#:

root@vdp:~/#: status.dpn
Thu Nov 3 13:01:01 KST 2016 [vdp.kj1.netact.skt.com] Thu Nov 3 04:01:01 2016 UTC (Initialized Mon Feb 15 06:27:42 2016 UTC)
Node IP Address Version State Runlevel Srvr+Root+User Dis Suspend Load UsedMB Errlen %Full Percent Full and Stripe Status by Disk
0.0 38.123.3.89 7.2.80-98 ONLINE fullaccess mhpu+0hpu+0000 1 false 0.30 14872 16371111 32.9% 32%(onl:1166) 32%(onl:1164) 32%(onl:1167)
Srvr+Root+User Modes = migrate + hfswriteable + persistwriteable + useraccntwriteable

System ID: 1455517662@00:50:56:BA:A1:74

All reported states=(ONLINE), runlevels=(fullaccess), modes=(mhpu+0hpu+0000)
System-Status: ok
Access-Status: admin

Checkpoint failed with result MSG_ERR_DISKFULL : cp.20161103033244 started Thu Nov 3 12:33:14 2016 ended Thu Nov 3 12:33:14 2016, completed 0 of 3497 stripes
Last GC: finished Thu Nov 3 12:32:44 2016 after 00m 30s >> recovered 0.00 KB (MSG_ERR_DISKFULL)
No hfscheck yet

Maintenance windows scheduler capacity profile is active.
The maintenance window is currently running.
Next backup window start time: Thu Nov 3 20:00:00 2016 KST
Next maintenance window start time: Fri Nov 4 08:00:00 2016 KST
root@vdp:~/#:

root@vdp:~/#: df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda2 32G 6.0G 24G 20% /

udev 7.8G 180K 7.8G 1% /dev

tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm

/dev/sda1 128M 37M 85M 31% /boot

/dev/sda7 1.5G 160M 1.3G 12% /var

/dev/sda9 138G 16G 115G 12% /space

/dev/sdg1 512G 499G 14G 98% /data01

/dev/sdh1 512G 497G 16G 98% /data02

/dev/sdi1 512G 499G 14G 98% /data03

root@vdp:~/#:

I think that issue cause are "/data01", "/data02", "/data03" locations.

But that locations have some checkpoint files.

I don't how delete that checkpoint files.

Please, help me. Thank you so much.

Best Regards,

Neal.Choi

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Proxy Error VDP 5.8.4

November 10, 2016, 12:32 am

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Hi,

I have updated my vCenter server appliance to version 5.5.0 4180647 for my ESXi 5.5 Update 3b enviroment.

Since that day, one of my two VDP appliances can't backup my VMs anymore.

It is the newer one with the version 5.8.4.6. My older VDP (5.8.0.467) is still working!

The VDP log file reports the error "30983" - a proxy problem.

But in the webinterface the proxy entry is shown:

I have SSH into the vdp and asked for the proxy setting. These are my results:

admin@L6399W05:/root/#: echo "select * from proxy_datastore_mapping" | psql mcdb -p 5555 -U admin

could not change directory to "/root"

proxy_cid | datastore_id | vc_cid

-----------+--------------+--------

(0 rows)

root@L6399W05:~/#: mccli activity show

0,23000,CLI command completed successfully.

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

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

9147872340903909 No Eligible Proxies 0 2016-11-09 21:30 CET 00h:00m:14s 2016-11-09 21:30 CET Scheduled Backup 0 bytes 0% RadiusW05d /vcenterlan.xyz.com/VirtualMachines

9147872341354809 No Eligible Proxies 0 2016-11-09 21:30 CET 00h:00m:09s 2016-11-09 21:30 CET Scheduled Backup 0 bytes 0% L6804W05 /vcenterlan.xyz.com/VirtualMachines

9147872340453109 No Eligible Proxies 0 2016-11-09 21:30 CET 00h:00m:18s 2016-11-09 21:30 CET Scheduled Backup 0 bytes 0% L6805W05 /vcenterlan.xyz.com/VirtualMachines

9147872341805709 No Eligible Proxies 0 2016-11-09 21:30 CET 00h:00m:05s 2016-11-09 21:30 CET Scheduled Backup 0 bytes 0% RadiusW05c /vcenterlan.xyz.com/VirtualMachines

9147872342256609 No Eligible Proxies 0 2016-11-09 21:30 CET 00h:00m:00s 2016-11-09 21:30 CET Scheduled Backup 0 bytes 0% IAC-BOX-V4 /vcenterlan.xyz.com/VirtualMachines

I have restartet the VDP four or five times but no luck.

Also I can't create a new backup job? The VDP creates the job but the VMs are not added to the job. The error just says, that it was unable to add the client to the backup job.

Any ideas?

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vSphere 6.5 VDP 6.1.4 VMware Tools outdated

April 5, 2017, 12:14 pm

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Hello,

This has been an ongoing issue with the last few VDP versions.

I update vSphere to the latest version (in this case 6.5.0 5224529) and then the VMware tools on VDP appliances throws a warning that it is out of date.

I learned the hard way that you cannot simply perform the "Upgrade VMware Tools" automatically... it just uninstalls it and then cannot install the new version.

In the past I would just update to the newest version of VDP (in this case 6.1.4) and the problem would go away.

However, it hasn't gone away...

1. Is this problem really hurting anything? Backups seem to be ok.

2. Is there a KB or something that acknowledges this issue and/or provides a fix?

Thanks!

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VDP - backup status

June 20, 2017, 5:37 am

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Is there a way to see what the status of each running job in VDP is? I know you can see percent complete of the overall job but is there a way to see which machine is being backed up, which have already been backed up and which proxy it is currently using?

I have 6 jobs that back up about 100 virtual machines and the jobs just seem to sit at the same percentage for a long time. They also seem to take an incredibly long time to run.

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download vmx from vSphere Server

March 29, 2018, 8:24 pm

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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

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