VDR 1.1 How to Remove Damaged Restore Points
I need to remove some damaged restore points, but what do i need to do after i mark them for delete, i.e. how do i delete them or run a manual reclaim job? also. what is the ramification to restore...
View ArticleExporting OVF Templates Times Out
I have been trying to export an OVF template using the vSphere Client Version 4.1.0 Build 258902 of a VM from an ESXi server running 4.1.0 Build 260247 using a licensed version of vSphere 4 Standard....
View ArticleWe can’t make quiesced VMware Snapshots on a VM with Exchange 2010 in a RDM LUN
Hallo, first i must say, that we don't need a backup of the Exchange 2010 enviroment, this will be taken with NetApp SnapManager for Exchange. But the OS VMDK files are on a NFS Datastore and this...
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VDP backup jobs hung at 92%
Most backup jobs are hanging at 92% completion. I see some posts about recovery jobs hanging, but nothing about backups. Logs on this beast are not user frendly so I've got no direction yet. Any...
View ArticleVDR to VDP Migration error
I am trying to perform a migration from Vmware Data Recovery 2.0 to vSphere Data Protection 5.1 2.0TB (Standard). vCenter 5.1u1 in managing a single ESXi4.1 host which is running all of my VMs and both...
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 ArticleVDR reclaim job and shrinking datastore?
Has anyone actually been able to tell if the reclaim job actually does anything to reclaim space because my storage usage only increases and never shrinks in size. I've even decided to do a test where...
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#...
View ArticleRecommend SCSI-to-iSCSI bridge
Hi guys, Currently I've got an ADIC FastStor 2 Tape auto-loader connected to a physical machine running Backup Exec 12.5 that backs up our VMs using internal agents. Our ESX hosts are running ESX 4.1,...
View ArticleSlow throughput on vSphere and Arcserve r15 VDDK
Hey Guys, I am recently experiencing a performance issue with Arcserve R 15.0 on vSphere 4.1 using VDDK. Without any documented change to our backup environment certain VM Guests have slowed down to...
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Vmware Esxi 4.1 - Tape Backup not working
Hi Everyone I am trying to make a Tape data backup using Acronis but it does not want to backup. I can backup to a folder using Acronis. I think it is a problem with Vmware and the tape drive. Please...
View ArticlevDR backup problems
I've been using vDR 1.2.1 in vSphere 4.1 to backup VM's in our cluster for a while now. It generally works ok, but I have a an ongoing problem which is getting worse. This is affecting Linux and...
View ArticleResolution: VDR "Trouble writing to destination" errors with CIFS target on...
VDR users, We recently switched our CIFS backup destinations from a Windows 2003 server to Windows 2008 R2 (SP1, 64-bit). Since that point, we had nothing but problems: nearly all backups were...
View ArticleVADP using NBD: what network port on ESX server is used for data transfer?
I've gone through a bunch of VMware documentation (including the API guide) and can't seem to find this documented anywhere. I have an environment where we will be bringing 10GbE ports online on a...
View ArticleProblem with Windows server 2012 Failover Clustering setup
Hi, I have a strange issue regarding setup of MS cluster on server 2012, after i follow to the letter the instruction how to setup in the box cluster i get error on cluster validation. I have vcenter...
View ArticleVDP not sending Summary Report since Sunday (time change).
I just noticed that the (4) VDP appliances I am testing all stopped sending the Email Summary Report after the Daylight Savings time change on Sunday. the last report was generated Sunday morning at...
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 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 ArticleHow to backup a Physical RDM ?
Hello All, I would like to know how we could take a backup of a physical RDM ? Kindly share ideas and features of the product VDP that would allow or provide a workaround for the backup of the RDM in...
View ArticleTrouble reading files, error -3956 (operation failed)
I am backing up 38 servers running on 3 hosts using vmware data recovery 2.0.1 to a synology NAS using NFS. All server are backing up properly except for one server. Everytime I try to do a back up...
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