All backup jobs are failing - getJobError... ???
Hello,I´m running vSphere Data Protection 5.1. and I have a "little" problem that needs to be solved. All my backup jobs are failing and I can´t find out why. When I look into...
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...
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VDP documentation says that VDPa supports replication to VDPa?
I know that VDP 5.5 can replicate to Avamar, but VDPa is still version 5.1. VDPa 5.1 does not have replicationcapabilities, but the VDP 5.5 doc says that it does? What gives? Thanks,-MattG
View ArticlevDP 5.5 deployment issue
We upgraded vCenter successfully to 5.5 and have been unable to get vDP 5.5 to deploy.Importing the ova and powering it on seems fine, DNS looks good. We step though initial config and disk setup then...
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Virtual Data Recovery Appliance configured at 4vcpu 8GB and still runs at...
Hi folks -- I'm tired of some users constantly using 'snapshots' as a backup mechanism, and it's tedious to manually clone or backup vmdk's for them, so I thought I'd give VMWare's "Virtual Data...
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No files available for restore using FLR in a Windows guest VM on VDP 5.1.11.3
I have VDP 5.1.11.3 installed and backing up a mix of Windows and Linux VMs across two ESXi 5.1 Update 1. The VMs are backing up properly and I have recent mount points available, however, when I log...
View ArticleVdp backup job
Hello, I'm using VDP 5.1 and I started yesterday a new backup job with some machines, and it's past more than 12h that job is freezed in 91%. How do i cancel it? If i click on the task and press...
View ArticleVDP 5.5 failing to backup VM. Snapshot error.
Good day, I'm using vSphere Data Protection basic 5.5 to backup my VMs. Some of my backup job failing to backup. Error from client log file: 2013-12-11T21:01:09.512-5:00 avvcbimage Warning...
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection - Offsite backup
Hi, Does anyone knows what's the better way to do an offsite backup of the backups executed by the vSphere Data Protection? For example, copying /data01, /data02, /data03 to an usb drive?
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 ArticleVDP incremental backups ?
Dear guys, so far i'm not able to say if with standard VDP version it is possible to have incremental backups, do you know if is it possible ?Cause i need to run full backup and many incremental, or...
View ArticleRecreate a virtual machine vmdk
I was using the Vsphere client trying to restart a windows 7 machine. The machine had it's primary OS on datastore1 and three 2tb drives labeled 2tbA 2tbB and 2tbC. The only actual data was on the OS...
View ArticleBackup Solution for new ESXi 5.5 Cluster.
All, We have built a new Cluster on ESXi 5.5 with 2 DL380 G8 servers (hosts) and a HP Storevirtual 4330 connected via iSCSI for SAN storage. All iSCSI have 4 NICs attached to a iSCSI 1GB Switch.The HP...
View ArticleVMware vDP with Virtual Matchine Snapshot
Just a Query, is it possible to take VM Backup using vDP (vSphere Data Protection Standard, 5.5.1 ) when there is a snapshots present?
View ArticleNo restore points after backup success
Facing a problem using vDP 5.5.1 Standard.I am sure I have taken a successful backup of my VMs and this backup is also showing me in the restore TAB.But after restart the vDP Server, when I am...
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...
View Articleesxi raid disaster - how to recover my vm's?
Hello I currently have the following issue:We have a IBM x3650 server with two raid 5 systems. The esxi host is installed on the first raid which currently failed (marked as offline). Now that I can't...
View ArticleBackup performance via SAN transport - defragmentation
I am using Backup Exec 2010 R3 to backup my VMs using it's VMware agent and using SAN transport as opposed to network level backups. I've noticed that some of my VMs backed up nice and fast. Nearly 4...
View ArticleVDP fsck failed.
Hello.. My VDP appliance is in a read-only state and will not boot into read-write. I don't understand the command I think its asking for i.e. bash# mount -n -o remount,rw / doesn't work? Is the bash#...
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vSphere Data Protection data flow
Looking to set up VDP and want to make sure I do so in the best way possable. I have a sphere/view enviroment with a couple of ESXi servers on our private network. ALso have a PHYSICAL box for vCenter...
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