VMware Data Recovery has now broken on me 5 different ways
I have now reinstalled VM DR from scratch 5 times. The last time I did everything possible to keep the installation as clean and lean as possible. Everything then finally ran for 2 weeks without...
View ArticlevSphere includes VMware Data Recovery...correct?
I was looking at the VMware Data Recovery Product and it looks pretty cool...until I saw you had to purchase it. Then I saw this: "VMware Data Recovery is included in vSphere Enterprise Plus,...
View ArticleReplication & Backup: vRanger or Veeam Backup & Replication?
Hi, we currently have three hosts running about 40 virtual machines which are currently backed up using Data Recovery. We are now looking for a new solution that can also handle replication so we can...
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 ArticleVMware Data Recover Upgrade - Question
We are currently running vCenter 4.1 and preparing to upgrade to vCenter 5.1. We have a version 1.2 VDR appliance with a backup store (RDM). I'm looking through the instructions specified here for...
View ArticleProblem with Backup Exec 2010 and VMware agent
I am using a fully patched Backup Exec server to test the VMware agent for backing up VM's. Here is what is happening: Backup Exec requests a snapshotI can see the snapshot getting created in...
View ArticleOpinions 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 ArticlevSphere Data Protection 5.1 - Credentials
After installing the appliance and powering it on, i get to the web-URL where the user root is mandatory. It says in the documentation ( the ones I have found ) that I have set an appliance password...
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 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 ArticleBest backup software
Hi, What's the best backup software to use with a small install of vSphere? I'm planning one host to start with 7-8 VMs. Maybe I'll add another host later. I've downloaded CA Arcserve and found it to...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1, new Data Protection and Avamar
This may be a premature question to ask but I'll direct it to those that have beta tested the new VDR replacement Data Protection that will be in vSphere 5.1. From what I've read (I have not seen it...
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VDP Fails with Error E10052 - Seems VMs freeze while VDP backs up.
Hello Everyone, So, I'm working with VDP and trying to backup 7 vms. I don't have this issue at any other client of ours. I have a client that the VDP runs at the default time set and fails to...
View ArticleVDP will not backup Server 2008 R2 - lots of errors
I just downloaded and installed new newest version of VDP on Vsphere 5.1. I had it back up two linux VMs....no probem. I then tried to have it back up a Windows 2008 R2 VM (twice)....both times it...
View ArticleData Recovery Snapshot Error -3941
Hi All, I am currently experiencing an issue with the backup of one VM using Vmware Data Recovery. The VM in question is a Windows 2003 DC. Initially the error we were experiencing was along the...
View ArticleEsxi 5 Hypervisor backup image
Hi All, This is my first post, I am new to VMware. I have manged to install ESXi5 on Hp DL360 G6 with 24 GB HD and 410 Gb HD, with RAID 5 I also managed to install Centos 6.2 as my first client. It is...
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VDP 0,5TB integrity check fails
I'm running Vcenter 5.1 with 4 x ESXi 5.0.0 76811 hosts. I've implemented two VDP appliances 1 x 0,5TB and 1 x 1TB . Integrity check fails with 0,5TB VDP backup appliance. Everything is okay with the...
View ArticleDeduplication store integrity and recatalog problems
I have Data Recovery running for just over a week and the Integrity check has completed OK each day until now. Now it seems to hang at 33%. The current task name is 'Recatalog' and the Status is...
View ArticlevDP and DNS
Hi to all,I know I'm not the first and for sure not the last one to complain about vDP. But this crap is driving me creazy.I just want a simple backup routine and for that I used VDR for some time and...
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,...
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