Backup performance ESXi 5.5
Hi All I am wondering what sort of backup performance people get when performing RAW VM backups.. I have a standalone ESXi host with direct attached storage, SAS disks. I am backing up VMs...
View Articlesetting up an iSCSI tape library with BackupExec
Hi,I am (still) setting up my first VMware site and i am up to the point of getting backups going.A bit of background: I have 3 physical servers that connect to an iSCSI SAN. All VMs are stored on...
View ArticleBottleneck = source
Dear all, I am using ESXi 3.5 (Free version) and I am triailing Veeam Backup & Replication. The most I can get out of it is 5 - 6 Mb/s My VM is 570GB and the whole thing is taking 25 odd hours. Is...
View Articlepre-freeze and post-thaw scripts help
Hi I've got an environment where I want to use Veeam as the backup tool but I'm having issues with a non VSS aware application and pre-freeze scripts.Essentially, I need to freeze an old Oracle...
View ArticlevSphere 5.5 and Avamar
I haven't seen this question yet, so apologies if it has already been asked. What, if any version of Avamar supports integrated backups with vSphere5.5? The Avamar product page says it supports 5.X,...
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 Article2 not working vdp's with /space partition full
been having some odd happenings the last few days where services would be stopped in the morning on 2 of the VDP appliances, usually management and scheduledthis morning 4 services were stopped on...
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 ArticleBackup vdpa Exchange 2013
Hallo My customer wants migrate to exchange 2013. Does anybody know at which time vdpa supports exchange 2013. Or at which point a could find the roadmap for vdp (vdpa) Thanks for any answere . Kindly...
View ArticleCan vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.1 deployed without a domain?
I tried to deploy VDP without domain and DNS.I've edit host file both vcenter and vdp.Both of them can communicate with hostname.I stuck at the page that you have to put a domain.Can I deploy it...
View ArticleVDP 5.5 Emergency Restore: Could not create restore task
Trying to recover a VM via VDP 5.5 Emergency RestoreDisassociated ESXi from vcenter. Can connect to ESXi by either DNS or IP. Selecting datastore with enough disk space. Using a unique VM name. Upon...
View ArticleRestoring VM's using Netbackup to ESXi host
Hi,In my environment we use Symantec Netbackup 7.1. We backup VM's using our vCenter server to a Netbackup 5000 device & the backups are then copied out to our Disaster Recovery site over a 100MB...
View ArticleVDP Scheduler won't start
hi guys suddenly my Backup Scheduler won't start (I can see that in status VDP configure tab). It was working fine.I manually start it. No go.I used command: dpnctl stop mcs - dpnctl start mcs. Same...
View ArticleVDP 5.5 - unexpected error 10058
new vdp 5.5 appliance 1TB connected to a vcenter 5.5 applianceconfigured a dozen or so backups that are working. have 3 vm's that get "An unexpected error occurred with the following error code: 10058"...
View ArticleVDP 5.5.5.180 cannot edit backup Job
Hi all,after a lot of tuning I have a working installation of vdp 5.5.5. I have a single backup job for 30 vms and everything seems working well.Now I need to edit my backup job but when I edit it...
View ArticleVDP Performance Improvements?
I have 5 VDP appliances running version 5.1. When the staggered maintenance kicks off, my storage and host performance goes way down. I'm looking at purchasing VDP-A with Data Domain DD Boost and...
View ArticleVDR 1.2 giving me error -1115 ( disk full), error -1103 ( write protected) on...
Dear, We are using Vmware Data Recovery (1.2 on esx4) to backup some VM machines on a CIFS share of DataDomain server, in total 4, 2 go well, the other 2 I receive the following errors when they are...
View ArticleVDR CBT not working (Incremental)
Hi, I'm using VDR 2.0 on ESXi 5.0 to backup some VMs on a test host (whitebox)This has worked fine - all backups being incremental. Recently I had a host-side crash where a disk became inaccessible....
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