VDP 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 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 ArticleExporting OVF Templates Times Out
I have been trying to export an OVF template using the vSphere Client Version 4.1.0 Build 258902 of a VM from an ESXi server running 4.1.0 Build 260247 using a licensed version of vSphere 4 Standard....
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 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 ArticleMFT corrupt but VM working normal. How is that possible?
I'm using Acronis VMProtect to back up my virtual machines. I am trying to diagnose a warning message with Acronis technical support. One Windows 2008 32-bit VM with 2 virtual hard disks attached...
View ArticleVDP vs VDR
Hi everybody, i couldnt help myself starting this conversation. i was very suprised for VDR being shutdown.i knew VDR would be updated, but was not expectng so soon, since the latest 2.01 was released...
View ArticleVDP Fails to Start
When I try to start my VDP appliance, the vm boots and then sits at "Starting VDP appliance systems. Estimated time to complete: 10 minutes." But it never gets passed this point. We recently move the...
View ArticleData Protection 5.1 will not start up - DNS error
We are small users with only 3 hosts. 2 hosts are running ESXi 4.1, and I am in the process of installing a new third host. We currently rely on Data Recovery and so the new, allegedly more robust,...
View ArticleVDP will not backup Server 2008 R2 - lots of errors
I just downloaded and installed new newest version of VDP on Vsphere 5.1. I had it back up two linux VMs....no probem. I then tried to have it back up a Windows 2008 R2 VM (twice)....both times it...
View ArticleRemove VDP?
How do I completely remove VDP from my environment? I've found some instructions on-line but every VM still has com.vmware.vdr.is-protected and com.vmware.vdr.protected-by in their notes section.
View ArticleVDP not usable after reboot
Hi to everyoneI need some help to regain access to my VDP appliance.Environment:vCenter server 5.1 listening to port 444ESXi hosts 5.0 build 623860VDP appliance 5.1.1 After first installation the...
View ArticleTroubleshooting VDP Backup Failure - New to VDP
Hello, I have only recently started using VDP after having taken over responsibilities for the VMware environment from the engineer who performed the installation. In familiarizing myself with the...
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 ArticleData Recovery backup job fails with error -3902
Whenever I run the Data Recovery backup job it creats the VM snapshop and then immediately removes it and fails with the following errors: 6/2/2009 9:11:24 PM: Normal backup using Backup Job...
View ArticleWe can’t make quiesced VMware Snapshots on a VM with Exchange 2010 in a RDM LUN
Hallo, first i must say, that we don't need a backup of the Exchange 2010 enviroment, this will be taken with NetApp SnapManager for Exchange. But the OS VMDK files are on a NFS Datastore and this...
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 ArticleVDR to VDP Migration and vCenter 5.0
hi guys I have vCenter 5.0 and VDR 2.0 and I want to install VDP. Since VDP needs vCenter 5.1 I want to install a new vCenter Appliance 5.1 and delete the 5.0 So I have some doubts about this migration...
View Articlebackup all looks normal then gets canceled by Administrator???
I have a VDP dedicated to backing up a single mail server. It has run successfully in the past but now fails. Looks like something is stopping backups 1 hour after every run. Anyone see this...
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