Opinions on Symantec V-Ray vs Veeam
We are looking at both of the products in the subject line for our DR solution. I can read all the marketing material till I'm blue in the face, however I wanted to here from people who are using them...
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 Article"Cannot complete operation due to concurrent modification by another...
I've just updated VDP to 5.1.10.32 following Administration Guide. I removed snapshot after update but I'm not able to set disks to "Independent - Persistent“ mode again. I've got "File...
View ArticleFailed to create snapshot for vm error -3960
Hi,I am using VDR and getting this error for one of VMs. Failed to create snapshot for vmname, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce virtual machine)Taking the sanpshot manually with quiesce enabled works just...
View ArticlevDP - Sick of being a beta tester
I am really tired of VMWare releasing half-finished software and expecting end users to be beta testers. First it was SSO (what a disaster that was/is), and now vDP - what is going on with this...
View ArticleWhat are the VM size limitations for using NBD transport mode in VADP ?
We are having issue to perform VADP backup with EMC² Networker 7.6.2 with a VM which in total equals about 2.3 TB of data.The setup is the following:VM (fileserver) running on Windows 2008 R2The backup...
View ArticleVDP 2TB image ran out of space on root
/usr/local/avamarclient folder seems to be full of huge log files. Are these safe to delete? 0 bytes left on / How could I have prevented this?
View ArticleVDP Backup for ESXI
Hi,I am running two node cluster of esxi.Running around 10 vm in total with capacity ranging from 300GB to 750 GB. Got a NAS box and thinking of attaching the backing up the vm on this storage.Can...
View ArticleProblem with FLR with vmware data protection 5.1
Hallo, We have a problem with our vdp and after two days of reading manuals and kb article we dont know what to do anymore.We have ESX 5.1 and vCenter 5.1 and using also the 2TB Data Protection 5.1.The...
View ArticleVDPA (vSphere Data Protection Advanced) maximum throughput, and maximum...
I am preparing a design for a large virtual environment which has more than 2500 VMs. I am planning to provision VDPA for VM backup of non-production environment of Windows and Linux VMs. Query #1: As...
View ArticleCan I move the VDR backups on to tape?
Hi. I've looked in the FAQ and docs for VDR, but I can't seem to figure out if it's possible to move the backed up VMs on to tape or another type of backup media. I understand that the "initial"...
View ArticleVDR: Slow Integrity check
I have a VDR store that has a size of 180 GB. Integrity check started the first time this morning at 01:00 am. Now it is almost 6:00pm and it is still running with a progress of 20%...
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 ArticleE10007 Miscellaneous Error Backing Up VM
I have recently setup a small new virtual environment. One of the key features is a vDP backup appliance running on a host at physically separate location, with backups being performed over the...
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 ArticleCan't take a snapshot with memory flag 0
Hello, I have a problem with some guest on an esxi 5 host. When I try to backup these VMs via the vadp (tsm for ve) I get the following error on the esx: The guest OS has reported an error during...
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 ArticleVDP: heavy traffic on lo
Hi,I successfully restored one VM last Thursday. I'm checking CPU Usage of VDP now and it increased to three times since then. Two java processes run constantly and I can see heavy traffic on lo (25...
View ArticleData Protection 5.1 will not start up - DNS error
We are small users with only 3 hosts. 2 hosts are running ESXi 4.1, and I am in the process of installing a new third host. We currently rely on Data Recovery and so the new, allegedly more robust,...
View ArticleSnapshot backup failed due to VM quiescing
Hi All,When we take snapshot through NetApp VSC plugin most of the VMs not backed up due to the below error. Is there any other method available? How can i fix this? Please suggest me on this.Date-WARN...
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