VDP 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 ArticleOff-site backup with VDP?
So currently we have vSphere Essentials Plus, with 3 ESXi 5.1 host machines, a dedicated vCenter Server and a ReadyNAS 3200. I'm using VMware Data Protection to do backups of each of the VMs each day,...
View ArticleUnable to login to VDP restore client
Hi I've just recently started to use the VDP and am trying to test the file level restore functionality.I'm unable to login to the restore client however. On a VM I have a backup of, I open IE and type...
View Articlecannot rollback vdp
my vdp appliance failed o start the services and so i tied to rollback o a previous config but failed. any idea what to do now?
View Article2 not working vdp's with /space partition full
been having some odd happenings the last few days where services would be stopped in the morning on 2 of the VDP appliances, usually management and scheduledthis morning 4 services were stopped on...
View ArticleVDP not loading in web client
Just upgraded vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 and installed VDP along with it. The plug-in shows in the web client and I've configured VDP accordingly. All services (except for maintenance) are running on the VDP...
View ArticleHow to freeing up space in VDP with the capacity health check limit reached?
Used Capacity on one of our VDP reached 96.46% and Backup Scheduler was stopped. I'm able to start Backup Scheduler. But although I deleted many backups the used capacity is still the same. Is any way...
View ArticleClone fails with error: error caused by file vm/vm-0000002.vmdk
I was trying to make backup to a the vcenter vm with Veeam B&R 6.5 last patch, and i got the followed error: timed out waiting for all VDDK disks to close, so i tried to fix the error restarting...
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...
View Articlerestore of backups from vdp without a vcenter
Hello,My linux appliance vcenter corrupted but vdp has a backup.Any one tried restore of backups from vdp without a vcenter.Appreciate any help.
View ArticleInstall VDP 5.5 on vCenter 5.1 ?
Friends,I need to install the vSphere Data Protection in a production environment, but vSphere and vCenter are installed in version 5.1 and want to install VDP 5.5, I've tried doing some laboratories...
View ArticleBack-up Cluster Volume disk W2K8R2 Fail-over Cluster
Hi Guys, We are currently running an Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Fail-Over Cluster build on 2 VM's running on vSphere 5.0.Because the cluster volume disk is connected by iSCSI we are not able to back-up...
View Articlevim-cmd not working in cli & SOAP session destroyed
I'm having trouble with using the vim-cmd at cli to get snapshots, get list of vm and things.They send out 3 kind of errors: Failed to login: vmodl.fault.SystemErrorFailed to login:...
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 ArticleErr_code: -110 SnapshotVM: Exception Raised - fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
Hi,We use VMware ESXI version 4.1.0 as a host with vSphere Client Version 4.1.0. There are guests with Windows 2003 Srv and Windows 2008R2 Srv. The backup runs on another Windows 2008R2 with CA...
View ArticleVDP crash
Hi,Two days ago i need to restore some file from a vm with windows 2003. The restore job started but it hang at 92%. After several hours I decided to cancel the job.The vdp vm crashed. After a "Restart...
View ArticleSafe to delete snapshot from failed vdp backup
Hi I had some backups fail last night and on 4 VMs I can see a snapshot that the VDP appliance made during the backup but was unable to remove automatically. (I assume)Since these are some pretty...
View ArticleVDP vs VDP Advanced - Backup Speed
Hello - Does anyone know if VDP Advanced is any faster than the 'regular' free version? We finally finished our Production deployment of the 'free' version of VDP, and it on days with heavy data...
View ArticleVDP can't connect to Vcenter
Hi, i have installed VDP but it can't connect to vcenter.I have public IP both. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------nager.java:1361) at...
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