VDP / VDP advanced and unsupported disks
According to best practices - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vmware-data-protection-administration-guide-5120.pdf "When planning for backups, make sure the disks are...
View ArticleIntegrity Check Status -> Out of Date
hi guys It's been for a week or so my integrity check status is Out of Data.I try manually running it and it fails. All VDP services are up and running, VDP is at 86% storage utilization. Something...
View ArticleSlow restore speed of virtual machine
Hello! I have a question about slow restore speed of virtual machine. Backup speed of 8 VM (parallel) is about 900...950 GBytes per hour Restore speed of one VM on VMFS through SAN is only 75...80...
View ArticleghettoVcb proble snapshot missing
good morning i have a problem wnen i try backup a virtual machine in esxi 5.1i use ghettoVcb script report this problem .Snapshot found for Windows-2008, backup will not take placei habe delete all...
View Articlevdp appliance no space left on device
I got a no space left on device message on the vdp appliance so I went into /usr/local/avamaclient/var-proxy-x and delete one of the logs that was about 400-500mb there was one on each var-proxy-x...
View ArticleVPD vCenter Registration Test Connection fail
Hi everyone, I come across a problem while setting up VPD, I am trying to deploy VDP for our foreign office, their ESXi hosts are managed under our vCenter, The installation looks fine, DNS...
View ArticleHow many VMs can you backup through one vCenter server?
Hi all, we have a fairly large vSphere 5.0 environment with 2x vCenter servers, each with ca. 2000 VMs using about 600 TB of FC-attached SAN storage.The majority (~90%) of these VMs are backed up with...
View Articlevim-cmd not working in cli & SOAP session destroyed
I'm having trouble with using the vim-cmd at cli to get snapshots, get list of vm and things.They send out 3 kind of errors: Failed to login: vmodl.fault.SystemErrorFailed to login:...
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VMWare tools quiescence in linux
I was wondering if anyone could tell me a little more about VMWare tools quiescence. I'm talking about how vmware tools will automatically run the scripts;/usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script...
View ArticleVDP 5.5 and Exchange 2013
Hi,Does anybody know if VDP 5.5 really supports Exchange 2013 backup?I've installed agent, configured everything as in manual, but backups are failing.I suppose that there is wrong VSS writer for...
View ArticleI can't manually hot-add one snapshot vmdk file to another VM.
Hi. Due to a backup issue, (hot-add jobs fail over to network mode), Veeam support suggest me to try to add a snapshot disk manually. I did the next steps: - Take one snapshot.- Edit settings of...
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VDP: Failed to attach disk
Hi everyone, I've tried everything I could for the past 2 days and I am still geting this... I have reinstalled it 4 times so far and still same thing!I CAN ping from within VDP shell the esxi hosts,...
View ArticleFailed to send the email summary report
Hi, I have the Problem that my VDPA does not send Status emails.Error is: Failed to send the email summary report. Reason: Can't find resource for bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle, key...
View ArticleFLR restore is showing error most of the times
Hi, While we try to use FLR for restoring the backup from VDP we are getting the following error message Failed to browse backup '<folder name>'. Unable to browse as proxies are unavailable This...
View ArticleVDP: Host is in a state that cannot perform snapshots
We have an VDP Appliance that is backing up one Guest VM fine but the second Guest VM it continues to error out after 10-30 seconds stating "VDP: Host is in a state that cannot perform snapshots." I...
View ArticleVDP: [004] The VDP appliance datastore is approaching maximum capacity
Hi, I've got this alarm "VDP: [004] The VDP appliance datastore is approaching maximum capacity" because the datastore where i have the VDP virtual disks is almost with the exact size of the virtual...
View ArticleStuck on 5.0 because I don't want VDP...5.5 version any better?
Running a 5.0 environment with VDR 2.0.1 and while it is not great, for the most part it works. After reading so many horror stories and limitations with VDP I have been avoiding 5.1 updates but with...
View ArticleServidor sql server ¿Backup o replica?
Hola a tod@s. Tengo varios servidores esxi en los que corren máquinas virtuales con MS SQL Server.Realizo las copias de seguridad de las máquinas virtuales con Veeam Backup. ¿Para los servidores con...
View ArticleVDP Upgrade - stalls at 45% - Installation of the package stalled
Hi,i just tried the upgrade from VDP 5.5 to 5.6 and it stopped with this error message: Installation of the package stalledThe installation stalled due to an error. Please use your snapshot to rollback...
View ArticleVDP upgrade from 5.1.11.3 to 5.5.6
Is it possible to upgrade vSphere Data Protection from 5.1.11.3 to 5.5.6 ?? In the VMware interoperability list, vCenter 5.1 shows as compatible with VDP 5.5.6, but in VDP administrators guide, there's...
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