Vmware C drive issue
How can I extend my C drive space without restart my VM machine. Please explain me all the possibilities.
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 ArticleRestoring directly to an ESXi host with VMware Data Protection (VDP)
Can I use VMware Data Protection to restore directly to an ESXi host, or do I have to have vCenter Server up and running? (If the VM I'm trying to restore is vCenter Server itself, then it won't work...
View ArticleCBT 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 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 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 ArticleVDP Appliance configuration - registering with vCenter fails. Possible to...
Hi, I want to deploy a VDP Appliance and connect it to a remote vCenter, that is, not the one on which the appliance is deployed. Say I have deployed the ova template in vCenter1, but during the...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 Host backup
Hi vSphere community, Curious what people are doing to backup up physical ESXi servers? We have IBM TSM, but I'm not sure it can backup an ESX Host. Strictly looking at ESX host backups at the moment...
View ArticlevSphere Data Recovery error -3948 ( vcb api exception)
Hi all, I have a problem with the data recovery, I am not able to backup my machines I only get following error: error -3948 ( vcb api exception) Hope anyone has a idea what this error mean and...
View ArticleVDR - Trouble writing to destination volume, error -1020 (sharing violation)
Using VMware Data Recovery 1.1, backing up to CIFS share and getting this error 1/18/2010 8:55:31 AM: Performing incremental back up of disk "[Lun] VM/VM-DB1-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"1/18/2010...
View ArticleMFT corrupt but VM working normal. How is that possible?
I'm using Acronis VMProtect to back up my virtual machines. I am trying to diagnose a warning message with Acronis technical support. One Windows 2008 32-bit VM with 2 virtual hard disks attached...
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection stucks at 92% on Windows 2008 R2 VMs
I'm having issues with backing up Windows 2008 R2 VM using data protection... it stucks at 92 % and lasts like forever, unless I cancel the job. Does anyone have solution to this already? I've seen a...
View ArticleVDP 5.5 and Exchange 2013
Hi,Does anybody know if VDP 5.5 really supports Exchange 2013 backup?I've installed agent, configured everything as in manual, but backups are failing.I suppose that there is wrong VSS writer for...
View ArticleVDR: Best Practice to backup VM's on local storage
This is not a real world scenario, but more a question for a better understanding! Given a configuration with 3 ESX hosts and vCenter (Essentials Plus), no shared storage. The VM's are stored on the...
View ArticleAnyone else having these VDR issues?
I love the fact that VMware is providing VDR as part of the vSphere package. It's definitely a step in the right direction, albeit I'm still inclined to think this software hasn't been put through the...
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 ArticlePoor NFS Performance: OpenFiler
Good Day Everyone, I have an issue with OpenFiler, a Linux-based operating that converts a computer system into a SAN/NAS appliance. Here is the problem. In my environment we have two Netapp...
View ArticleGeneral consensus on VMFS or RDM for vDR?
VMFS is a pain in that vSphere is going to complain that the Datastore is greater than 80%. Even if you disable the alarms for the vDR VMFS datastore, it still will change the datastore's icon to...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 - Automount Disable does not work
I am configuring Windows 2008 R2 64bit for BackupExec 2010 but when I run Diskpart Automount disable and automount scrub. After I rebooted the server 2008 still asked me do I want to initilize the...
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