How to create consistency group for protection group? I am interested in to...
How to create consistency group for protection group? I am interested in to find out 'how to get mapping list between SRM protection group and recover point consistency group'?Please kindly help.
View ArticleVDP - Limit concurrent backups
Hi, Has anyone tried to limit concurrent backups? Default number (8) is just too much for our NAS and i'd like to have 4 or even 2 backups running at the same time. Jeff Hunter mentions that it's...
View ArticleFree Recovery Time Calculator Tool
You can click here to access the new Recovery Time Calculator Tool for FREE. This is a free tool to help you determine if you'll meet your RTO's. You can quickly calculate how long it will take to...
View ArticleReinstall VDP Appliance From Zero
Hi,how can i reinstall from the deploy the VDP appliance ?I have a corrupted appliance and i need to remove this.I Have not backup, this is a test first setup.Can i simply delete the Virtual Machine...
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be careful when changing IP address of a VDP appliance
There are two ways of changing the IP address of a VDP appliance: 1- via vdp-configure web app2- via VM console (the blue TUI inteface) The correct one is the 1- option. If you will do it via 2-...
View Article10 VDP appliance limit
Hello - Does anyone know what options we have once we hit the 10 VDP appliance limit? The limit sounds like it's imposed at the vCenter server level, so I'm assuming in we spin up another vCenter...
View ArticleVDP 5.5 chokes on vCenter (Appliance 5.5) certificates
Hi, I just changed our vCAs self-signed certificates, replaced them with certificates from our internal CA.I followed VMware KB: Configuring Certificate Authority (CA) signed certificates for vCenter...
View ArticleLast backup of VM from Vcenter?
Hi, is it possible to identify when a VM was last backup via CBT ?I got an external backup software, but want to monitor it from Vcenter, maybe via powershell. Thanks, Magnus Moderation note:...
View ArticleVDP: [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 ArticleReplication & Backup: vRanger or Veeam Backup & Replication?
Hi, we currently have three hosts running about 40 virtual machines which are currently backed up using Data Recovery. We are now looking for a new solution that can also handle replication so we can...
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 ArticleFailed to create NFC download stream.
Hi We use Veeam BR to backup our Vmware environment, recently we have started so see Failed to create NFC download stream. The strange thing isthat Veeam retryies the job and then it goes sucessfull....
View ArticleError 3946 (Disk Open Failed) on VMware Data Recovery jobs
We currently backup VMs accross three different clusters using multiple VMware Data Recovery appliances. Without much warning, we've begun to have problems with one of the hosts. That host was...
View ArticleVDP - VMware Data Protection 5.1 is Free ?
Hello, I have 3 clusters running ESXi 5.0 with VCenter 5.0. I would like to use the VDP 5.1, but for that I need to update the VCenter 5.1. Know tell me that the VDP 5.1 (2TB) is free? Someone...
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 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 Articleserver used size historical reporting in vsphere
Hi Team, Is there anyway we can generate reports in such a way that , it reports "used size" of all servers in graphical / table output from historical data as below ? date server name...
View ArticleVDP hang after it restarts
Dear Friends, I restarted VDP appliance, when it is booting up getting hanged here, Starting VDP normal boot, starting VDP systems, estimated time to complete : 10 minutes. Regards, Faisal Odakkal
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 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...
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