vDP simply does not work
I have almost had it with this product (or at least this release).I did a very simple Backup of my VM, and tried to do a restore. The VM is running Ubuntu (if that makes any difference)?, and its VMDK...
View ArticleVADP Recovery Issues for SRM Protected VM
We get the following error when trying to recover a VADP image level backup for a virtual machine which has been protected using SRM: Invalid or unsupported virtual machine configuration.vSphere...
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 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 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 ArticleVDP 5.5.5.180 cannot edit backup Job
Hi all,after a lot of tuning I have a working installation of vdp 5.5.5. I have a single backup job for 30 vms and everything seems working well.Now I need to edit my backup job but when I edit it...
View ArticleSlow restore speed of virtual machine
Hello! I have a question about slow restore speed of virtual machine. Backup speed of 8 VM (parallel) is about 900...950 GBytes per hour Restore speed of one VM on VMFS through SAN is only 75...80...
View ArticleHow to make full guest OS backup?
What is the best way to make a full guest OS backup in the case that the hardware failed? I want to be able to simply re-install the hypervisor and restore the guest OS instead of reinstall everything...
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How to monitor Failed backups in VDP?
Hi, There has already been some discussions about monitoring Failed backups in VDP, but I couldn't find any appropriate solution. I've checked Alarms Definitions in the vCenter and there is no defined...
View ArticleNetworker 8.0.2 & vCenter 5.1
Dears, hi I have questions regarding to backup VMs hosted on vSphere Env 5.1 & manage by 2 vCenter 5.1 server (1physical & 1virtual =Heartbeat mode) we have EMC Networker 8.0.2 as backup...
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 ArticleVDP 5.1.11 Error code: 30915
Using VDP to backup Windows 2008 R2 server - upgraded to 5.1.11 to fix the quiesced snapshot issue. Some VMs are now backing up, but random others are getting this message: Error code 30915: An attempt...
View ArticleLast hfscheck failed with result MSG_ERR_HFSCHECKERRORS
Hi, For few days VDP has not been able to complete integrity check launched fromweb client so I tried running it manually: 1. Stop all VDP services (dpnctl stop)2. Unmount the mount point (umount...
View ArticleProblem with VDP: "File level restore service not running" and not able to...
Hello together, we've got a odd problem, from one day to the next, the VDP quit the file level restore service. When I try to start it with the web client, it just doesn't start.Also, I'm unable to...
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...
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VDP 5.5 failed to retrieve the storage information on the appliance
hi guys All of a sudden VDP stopped working, when I try to access VDP from Web Client I get a popup saying:"The VDP Appliance is not responding. Please try your request again.Would you like to be...
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 ArticleVeeam Backup Vs PHD esXpress
Hi all I've been looking at VM backup options recently for vSphere. After messing around with our current solution (Commvault) it turns out that they are still using the old VCB framework according...
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 Articlevmware ESXi 4.1 configuration backup via vcli
Hi all,when i trying to take ESXi 4.1 configuration backup through vsphere command line interface, the following error came."GET https://10.200.2.63/downloads/configBundle-warehousedb.medallcorp.in.tgz...
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