Data Protection Appliance deployed and configured, plugin enabled in vcenter,...
Hi! I have successfully deployed and configured a VDP appliance. The problem is that i cannot access the management plugin in the vsphere web client: it just isn't there. It is in the enabled plugins,...
View ArticleVMware Data Recovery step-by-step for newbie's
Firstly I have to say that this post was born due to my frustration with VMware Data Recovery. I was lucky or unlucky enough to be target by few different bugs in all releases, up to 1.0.2. VDR...
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 ArticleQuestion about using SMVI and SM for Exchange
Hey all. I have been trying to get this to work and I am not happy with the way I got it to work. Let me explain. We have an old 3.5 environment and a new 4.0 environment. In the new ENV, our VMs...
View Articleerror -3960 ( cannot quiesce virtual machine)
Hi, I'm completely new to this so please excuse me. I've been trying to get vdr to backup a Windows Server 2008 r2 x64 VM but im getting the above error, can anyone help?
View ArticleVCB snap of only the System disk of a vm.
I am using ESX 3.5 VC 2.5 and Avamar as my backup. I am doing some backups using VCB 1.5.I have some vm's with a 20gb OS disk and 500gb data disk (linux).I would like to do VCB of only the OS Disk of...
View ArticleBackup NFS Storage
Hello, My current setup includes 2 HP Proliant with esxi 4.1, local storage (Raid5 using Sata disks) and about 10 Virtual Machines. I'm looking for an inexpensive solution to backup my VM. Currently we...
View ArticleHow to force a backup running task to stop?
Hi, today I have one backup task that runs crazy, It should have been stopped during the night (it have only 3 hours of backup window), I press cancel but I only see Canceling execution... for hours....
View ArticleESXi 4.1 replication utility?
hi guys since we are vizioncore partner (which I hate in this scenario) we have to work with vreplicator....but vreplicator does not support ESXi..... bad for us we are not veeam partners.... so my...
View ArticleExtending volume fails: Can't access the index
We are using Data Recovery 1.2. and we are trying to extend backup destination. We have already extended backup volume at datastore level but when we try extend volume on DR it gives error message...
View ArticleHave -delta.vmdk files, no -.vmsn files. How to restore guest OS to snapshot?
Hi,By accident using Datastore browser I have deleted almost all files of one of the guest OS. Only vmdk files (flat and delta) survived. So far I have managed to run (using this link...
View ArticleRestore Reheasal Error
I want to test restoring a backup in VDR 2.0 and am running into an error.The Error I receive is: The device '4' is referring to a nonexisting controller '-4'.I'm guessing this is related to a USB...
View ArticleGot any experience with Veeam? VMWare files are locked...
I'm looking at using Veeam for a DR solution. It looks like I am not the first to experience this issue http://communities.vmware.com/message/1900559#1900559 Problem: I am unable to successfully backup...
View ArticleError in using VDR
I installed VDR successfully and made a scenario to back up VMs to an external USB drive.I prepared and mounted an external USB drive as "SCSI-1:0". I made a backup job with specific properties for my...
View ArticleHow to do Lan-Free backup with VCB
Dear VMware Experts, Currently we have one physical VCB backup server, with the help of that we are taking virtual environment backup, we are running the following scripts...
View ArticleStatus Failure in VDP backups
Hi, Can anyone please tell me where I can find detailed logs or an explicit reason as to why some VMs fail to backup? I have looked into Events and found no information. Any help would be appreciated...
View ArticleVDP5 Appliance Checkpoint /vmdk Questions
Is it possible to configure where the checkpoints for the appliance itself are kept or do they have to share the same datastore as the dedup'd vm's?Can the appliance be configured to store its vmdk...
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VDP 0,5TB integrity check fails
I'm running Vcenter 5.1 with 4 x ESXi 5.0.0 76811 hosts. I've implemented two VDP appliances 1 x 0,5TB and 1 x 1TB . Integrity check fails with 0,5TB VDP backup appliance. Everything is okay with the...
View ArticleVirtual Machine backup and recovery.
Hi, We have VSphere 5.0 and would like to find easy way to backup virtual machines not only file level but in case of some problems we would like to be able to easy restore virtual machine as cost of...
View ArticleVDR Skipping/missing machines in backup jobs
I have the latest VDR running on vCenter 5, with a single NFS mount as a destination. I'm backing up about 100 VMs spread across about a dozen backup jobs. Inside of those jobs, VDR is only backing up...
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