CBT on Eager Zeroed Disks
Hi All, If a disk is provisioned using thick eager zeroed, will the CBT consider all disk sectors in use and back up the entire disk rather than just the used disk space? How does it work? Please share...
View ArticleVDP ends up dying at every site.....always have to rebuild.
Ive got the basic version of VDP running at three sites (Vsphere 5.5, VMware vCenter Server 5.5.0b, VCB 5.5). Without fail, after a moth or two, its quits running. Vsphere then gives four or more...
View ArticleBackup performance ESXi 5.5
Hi All I am wondering what sort of backup performance people get when performing RAW VM backups.. I have a standalone ESXi host with direct attached storage, SAS disks. I am backing up VMs...
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 ArticleLicense DPA (vSphere Data Protection Advanced) for partial server farm
DPA is licensed per CPU. Can I just license certain host(s) in a server farm? For exmaple, I have e.g. 3 vSphere Standard hosts with 2 CPUs each. I put all the critical VMs in 1 host and backup only...
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 ArticleEMC VNX backup w/ Symantec
Hi there, We'd like to get some insight on backup configuration for VMware with EMC VNX and configuration of the storage and how its generally done. Currently we are using EMC VNX with our VMware 5...
View ArticleServidor sql server ¿Backup o replica?
Hola a tod@s. Tengo varios servidores esxi en los que corren máquinas virtuales con MS SQL Server.Realizo las copias de seguridad de las máquinas virtuales con Veeam Backup. ¿Para los servidores con...
View ArticleVDP Upgrade - stalls at 45% - Installation of the package stalled
Hi,i just tried the upgrade from VDP 5.5 to 5.6 and it stopped with this error message: Installation of the package stalledThe installation stalled due to an error. Please use your snapshot to rollback...
View ArticleVMware Data Protection 5.5.6.56 - VDDK:VixDiskLibVim: ESX/ESXi host is not...
Hello, after I managed to upgrade to the latest VDP Version 5.5.6.56 I can no longer run a Backup job. When I trigger the start of any I get the following error: Error 10055: VixDiskLib_Open attempt...
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...
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VDPA 5.5.6.56 does not consolidate snapshots
Dear friends,I had the same problem with VDPA 5.5.5.180 and I am still having it after the upgrade to 5.5.6.56.After a successful backup of a VM, the snapshot created for the backup job is not...
View ArticleUsing Symantech Backup 2012 backup VMDK
Hi Member I use backup execu 2012 for backup vcenter and walk to backup guest(VMDK), But now on Backup excu have error sine backup vm guest . Please help to advise to me Factor Install new agent...
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 ArticleWhat's causing VDP to fail installation? VDP: Configuring Install Storage...
I have been pulling my hair to figure out what's going on here. I can deploy the VDP ovf appliance fine, it's allowing setup to finish so I can start using it. It fails at the final stretch, during the...
View ArticleCan't connect to Data Recovery Appliance
I keep running into this one error trying to set up Data Recovery. I have it installed and the appliance imported. I go into the Solutions and Applications section and the VMware Data Recovery screen....
View ArticleVDR email notifications working...
We've managed to get email notifications working from our VDR installation (1.1.0.707). It certainly is not the most elegant solution; but I am hoping by sharing it with the community that it can be...
View ArticleBank6: Not a vmware boot bank - Imaged old boot mirror to larger drives.
As title says, we have a server that had 146Gb mirrored SAS drives and we used Acronis Backup and recovery Advanced server to save a disk image from the raided mirror. After replacing the drives with...
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 ArticleSetup VDP fails during vCenter registration
Hi, I want to setup the vSphere Data Protection VM. The Import was successful.But after that I opened the Webbrowser, entered "https://IP-aress:8543/vdp-configure". At the side "vCenter registration" I...
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