VDP: [004] The VDP appliance datastore is approaching maximum capacity
Hi, I've got this alarm "VDP: [004] The VDP appliance datastore is approaching maximum capacity" because the datastore where i have the VDP virtual disks is almost with the exact size of the virtual...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 - Automount Disable does not work
I am configuring Windows 2008 R2 64bit for BackupExec 2010 but when I run Diskpart Automount disable and automount scrub. After I rebooted the server 2008 still asked me do I want to initilize the...
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 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 ArticleVDP 5.5 Gsan Degraded
I'm having trouble with my 1TB vdp appliance, the appliance configure status webpage is showing all services are running but when I login to the appliance and run the command dpnctl status is shows...
View Articlevdp 5.5.5 advanced cannot add a license to a host
i have downloaded and installed the 60 day eval mainly to test the replication feature.i have the license provided by vmware and added it during the install/configuration go into the web client then...
View ArticleI can't manually hot-add one snapshot vmdk file to another VM.
Hi. Due to a backup issue, (hot-add jobs fail over to network mode), Veeam support suggest me to try to add a snapshot disk manually. I did the next steps: - Take one snapshot.- Edit settings of...
View ArticleDifferent backup solutions
Hello and thank you for taking the time for this discussion. We current have nine servers for virtual machines and two of them are in operation. So a few questions before I go any further: 1) I would...
View ArticleVDP 5.5 detailed reporting e.g. Size etc ?
Hi , I am using VDP for few days , installed and configured without troubles,I did a test backup , but I can't find any place to check backup details, just the Reports tab show some poor details...
View ArticlevDP simply does not work
I have almost had it with this product (or at least this release).I did a very simple Backup of my VM, and tried to do a restore. The VM is running Ubuntu (if that makes any difference)?, and its VMDK...
View ArticleVDP slow Performance
Hi I've a few questions about VDP. I have to save more than 150 VMs with VDP, so it's important to backup the vms in less time. Can someone describe the tasks taken in the backup process? (detailed)...
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 ArticleVDP 2TB image ran out of space on root
/usr/local/avamarclient folder seems to be full of huge log files. Are these safe to delete? 0 bytes left on / How could I have prevented this?
View ArticleVM Backup strategy
Hi All, I have just set up ESXi on my server and I will be running a few VMs as a home lab. I have 4 HDDs and since my server only has software RAID ESX doesn't work with this. How else can I back up...
View ArticleSnapshot Errors
My setup:vSphere 5.0.0, 4695124 VM Instacnes, all being backed up using Veeam 6.1Using Veeam 6.1 Backup and ReplicationMonthly Full with incrementals.My backup jobs are failing on ONE of the 4...
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VMWare tools quiescence in linux
I was wondering if anyone could tell me a little more about VMWare tools quiescence. I'm talking about how vmware tools will automatically run the scripts;/usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script...
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 ArticleSnapshot backup failed due to VM quiescing
Hi All,When we take snapshot through NetApp VSC plugin most of the VMs not backed up due to the below error. Is there any other method available? How can i fix this? Please suggest me on this.Date-WARN...
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.
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