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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 ArticleNetbackup 7.0 full restore - IP address disappears
With BLIB (block level incremental backups) enabled in Netbackup 7, CBT enabled (done through Netbackup and verified through script), Win 2k8 R2 x64 VM, we successfully did a full backup from the...
View ArticleVDP email configuration no longer works with yahoo or gmail.
I've had the email configuration page set up to email me via my yahoo account for several months. A few days ago, it stopped working with this error: "Send email summary report error: Failed to send...
View ArticleArcserve RAW VM backup -
I have ESXi 5.1 & ESXi 5.5 hosts, both using custom HP DL360 images (Gen8). When trying to backup a raw VM with Arcserve 16.5 (patched to latest release & support for ESXi 5.5 etc), i get this...
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 ArticleVDR: Slow Integrity check
I have a VDR store that has a size of 180 GB. Integrity check started the first time this morning at 01:00 am. Now it is almost 6:00pm and it is still running with a progress of 20%...
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VM CPU ready time and ESX host CPU ready time
Hi Team, I've been searching the net for info. on CPU ready time on ESX host, I'm already aware for VM's the recommended is 5% CPU ready time anything higher than that the VM would is performing quite...
View ArticleEssentials / Acceleration kit upgrade
I am hoping someone can confirm something for me as I cannot find it in the main vmware resources. I have 2x essentials kits that I am looking to upgrade to Acceleration kits. If I do this will I be...
View ArticleBackup and restore / disaster recovery plan template for vSphere
I'm looking for a guide / template to the process of backing up and recovering a vSphere environment. I'm looking for an overview dicussing what needs to be backed up, what the dependencies are, in...
View ArticleVMWare Essentials Kit Backup possibilities?
Hello, We have a very small system with VMware Essentials. 1 host (no vcenter installed)1 virtual server2 virtual pc's How can we do cost effective backups in case of disaster?Should we use Acronis?...
View ArticleSnapshot hanging
Hi all, i have created one job in VDP (8 vm), it starts as scheduled but the day after this is the situation:- all vm have snapshot attached- no one ended successfully- i have to shutdown vdp, remove...
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 ArticleVDP Proxy errors
Has anyone encountered this error before:vdp: Failed to initiate a backup or restore for a virtual machine because no proxy was found to service the virtual machine A new update to vdp came out last...
View ArticleUnable to configure vdp
Hi, After trying to reinstall my vdp appliance, I'm unable to configure it : Acces to https://vdp:8543/vdp-configure/ is OK I type changeme, fill all the forms, test connection is OKI type Finish ->...
View ArticleDifferences between VDP and Vmware data recovery
hi, I wonder if vSphere5.1 has changed the name of vmware data recovery to VMware Data Protection(VDP).I found the download link shows Vmware data recovery before vSphere5.0 and Vmware data protection...
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 ArticleConfigure VDP Appliance Twice, every time?
I don't believe there's anything special about our network or vCenter configuration. We're (still) attempting to roll out VDP, which has been a bit rocky thus far. I just recently downloaded the...
View ArticleRollback from snapshot
Hi everyone,My simple question is it possible to go back from snapshot to before snapshot state ? How can it be possible ?I lost a lot of useful data and I need it back.Please help.
View ArticleReregistration of VDP 5.5 at vCenter Appliance 5.5 fails
Hi, I updated latest VDP 5.1 to VDP 5.5, everything worked fine.After that I upgrade vCA to 5.5. I did that before the Management Services from VDP went back online because it took more than 6hours, on...
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...
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