LUN signature after RAID controller replacement
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...
View ArticleAnybody brave enough to upgrade to VDP 5.5?
VDP 5.5 is out ... so, has anybody already upgraded to VDP 5.5? Any feedback would be apprechiated.
View ArticleTransfer Speed slower for Fulls than Incrementals?
Why oh why would transfer speed be significantly less for full jobs than incrementals? I'm talking about the difference between 2MB/s and 15MB/s I have a 2 vSphere 5.0 datacenters, separated by 1200...
View ArticleVDP vs VDP Advanced - Backup Speed
Hello - Does anyone know if VDP Advanced is any faster than the 'regular' free version? We finally finished our Production deployment of the 'free' version of VDP, and it on days with heavy data...
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 LUN to be backed up by TSM
Hello Team,Has anyone backed up their VDP LUN(Where VDP dumps its backup of the Vms) to the Tape drives using TSM. I am looking forward to implement that , so wanted to check if any one has implemented...
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Management service start failed and MCS service down, an error is something...
Hi, everybody I have a problem about management service on VDP start failed and I can't get into VDP panel on Vsphere Client. I have faced this problem last 2 month and it was solved by deploying new...
View ArticleVDR 1.1 How to Remove Damaged Restore Points
I need to remove some damaged restore points, but what do i need to do after i mark them for delete, i.e. how do i delete them or run a manual reclaim job? also. what is the ramification to restore...
View ArticleBE2010 Attempts to mount vmdk: "Host is not licensed for this feature"
Hi all, I'm trying to use Backup Exec 2010 to perform full/incremental backups of our VM's with GRT enabled. However, at the end of every job, I get a warning saying that it failed to mount the...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Unresponsive on Snapshot Removal (30 seconds+) when CBT enabled
Hi, I have a couple virtual machines on a NFS datastore running on a NetApp Filer. Everything works well normally. The storage is not overloaded. On my regular virtual machines, never backed up using...
View ArticleVDR 2.0 cifs errors
Hi. I have upgraded from VDR 1.2 to 2.0 and have problems with dedupe store on cifs share on Windows 7. Previous VDR had no problem with backup on cifs share, but new version throws me this error in...
View ArticleVMDK file not recognized
I have a vmdk file tfrom an SMVI backup that i am trying to mount on a different server adn wehn i try to add it and point top that datastore location no files show up so i can't restore my files. The...
View ArticleVDP fsck failed.
Hello.. My VDP appliance is in a read-only state and will not boot into read-write. I don't understand the command I think its asking for i.e. bash# mount -n -o remount,rw / doesn't work? Is the bash#...
View ArticleVDP Remove and Install to new host
Hi - I am currently running VDP 5.1 on an old ESXi 5.1 host.I have bought a new ESXi host running 5.1 U1I would like to upgrade to VDP 5.5.1 but would rather install a fresh copy of VDP 5.5.1 on the...
View ArticleSlow throughput on vSphere and Arcserve r15 VDDK
Hey Guys, I am recently experiencing a performance issue with Arcserve R 15.0 on vSphere 4.1 using VDDK. Without any documented change to our backup environment certain VM Guests have slowed down to...
View ArticleVeeam Bottleneck=Source
I'm using Veeam Backup & Recovery version 6.5 with VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1. The VM storage is local to the ESXi server in a RAID5 SAS array. Veeam is running on a separate physical machine and...
View ArticleVDP / 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 ArticleVDP 5.1.11 Error code: 30915
Using VDP to backup Windows 2008 R2 server - upgraded to 5.1.11 to fix the quiesced snapshot issue. Some VMs are now backing up, but random others are getting this message: Error code 30915: An attempt...
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...
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