what NAS to choose for backup ?
Helloi have 2 ESXi host with essential license, what I need now is to buy some cheap entry level rackmount NAS solution for backup. I need two interfaces and at least 4TB Can u help me choosing best...
View ArticleThe SSO Server could not be found ???
Friends,VDP installed in my structure, but when access to the vSphere Web Client Console to manage the appliance, the following message appears: COULD NOT CONNECT TO REQUESTED VDP APPLIANCE. THE SSO...
View ArticleBack-up Cluster Volume disk W2K8R2 Fail-over Cluster
Hi Guys, We are currently running an Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Fail-Over Cluster build on 2 VM's running on vSphere 5.0.Because the cluster volume disk is connected by iSCSI we are not able to back-up...
View ArticleVDPA 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 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 ArticleVDP (vCenter Data Protection) throughput and data management.
1) Are there any limitations on the maximum FC and Ethernet through-put supported by VDP advanced version ? 2) Maximum data size capability of 8TB by VDPA is combined of all the 10 VDP appliances...
View ArticleWhat are the requirements to restore a VDP backed up VM at remote site ?
If I take backup of VM using VDP, and replicating VDP data base to remote site (site B).Is it possible to restore VM at remote at remote site on a different vCenter Server ? What would be the...
View ArticleVDP support for backup of 8VMs simultaneously and can manage 8 TB of data,
As per VMware documentation for VDP5.5, only 8 VMs can be backed up simultaneously. However nowhere it mentioned, whether this limit is per VDP appliance or combined of all the VDP appliances on a...
View ArticleCBT on NFS Datstore
Hi All, I have a question if VDDK Supports CBT on NFS Datastores? CBT Feature works fine on VMFS Datastores but not on NFS Datstores... Please let me know if there are any limitations on NFS Datstores....
View ArticleVDR error -105
Hello, Has anyone else encounter or know how to resolve a error -105? The exact error message is "Trouble writing to destination volume, error -105 (unexpected end of data)". This is only occuring on...
View ArticleCA ArcServe: Unable to map the VM volume to a VM disk image file
Hi, Although this isn't strictly a VMware issue i was wondering if anyone could help me out. My VMware RAW backup using CA Arcserve 12.5 has started to fail with error: AW0551 2010-02-15 12:13:03...
View ArticleCan not register VDP to vcenter
Hallo, i try to register the vdp to vcenter 5.1. I use the embedde SSO. The settings seems to be OK. But after the connection test, i get an error message box without text. If i change the settings to...
View ArticleLinux VM failing to snapshot
This is a bit of a strange issue and I haven't been able to find any evidence of similar reports. Maybe someone smarter than myself can point me in the right direction. I have been having trouble...
View ArticleVeeam Nightmare
http://vbscs.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/veeam-nightmare/ I am IT consultant for a few companies and all of them use different software packages for the same purposes of virtualization and backup. All of...
View ArticleHow to create consistency group for protection group? I am interested in to...
How to create consistency group for protection group? I am interested in to find out 'how to get mapping list between SRM protection group and recover point consistency group'?Please kindly help.
View ArticleHowto set up BackupExec 2010 to use SAN transport mode with vSphere 4?
Hi I feel like this question should be answered in at least ten knowledgebase articles and other documentations, yet i seem to be unable to find any of them ... I have BackupExec 2010 and vSphere 4.0...
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 ArticleVDP VCenter Registration test failure
Hi,We have deployed a 0.5 TB VDP appliance but when going through the initial setup we get the following error: Specified user either is not a dedicated VDP user or does not have sufficient vCenter...
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 recovery e-mail notification
Is there a possibility to send an e-mail after a successful job? I cannot found a configuration about that in data recovery. Regards
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