VDP Error Logs
VDR used to have a friendly window where you could view job reports and any failures that may have occured. Now I have 2 machines that failed to backup but cannot find the log entry stating why....
View ArticleConverter Error
Hi, I am using VMware converter 5.0. I have vCenter and ESXi 5.0.Before I was converting all online VMs into local HDD successfully.Even all VMs are converting fine except one machine that is Exchange...
View Articlehow to reduce used capacity in data protection?
A customer of ours uses vSphere Data Protection.In the reports, I see that Used Capacity is growing at 1%~2% per day.It has reached 86.31%.We removed old backup some days ago, so it should have been...
View ArticleVeeam Bottleneck=Source
I'm using Veeam Backup & Recovery version 6.5 with VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1. The VM storage is local to the ESXi server in a RAID5 SAS array. Veeam is running on a separate physical machine and...
View ArticleNetbackup 7.0 full restore - IP address disappears
With BLIB (block level incremental backups) enabled in Netbackup 7, CBT enabled (done through Netbackup and verified through script), Win 2k8 R2 x64 VM, we successfully did a full backup from the...
View ArticleBackup vCenter Server with VDR error -3960 (exceeded limit for holding off...
Hello At the moment we face the problem that we can't backup our vCenter Server VM with our VDR.We just get the error: Failed to create snapshot for <vm>, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce virtual...
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 ArticleArcserve 15 SP1 and vSphere 5 testing
Just wanted to post our findings with what we have successfully tested in our backup environment while preparing to migrate to vSphere 5. First off, one of the frustrating issues in a large datacenter...
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 ArticleVDR to VDP Migration | Fails to Attach VDR
Hey there, after our upgrade to vsphere 5.1 / vCenter 5.1 we're trying to get rid of the old VDR Appliance and migrate to VDP. So i deployed one VDP Appliance, shut down the old VDR, took a Snapshot...
View ArticleVDR to VDP Migration error
I am trying to perform a migration from Vmware Data Recovery 2.0 to vSphere Data Protection 5.1 2.0TB (Standard). vCenter 5.1u1 in managing a single ESXi4.1 host which is running all of my VMs and both...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hosts Sudently Power Down
Hello everyone, I have a client with Essential Plus and he`s setup with 2 hosts ESXi 5.1, vCenter Appliance, Virtual Data Protection. What happened is that a power failure brutally brought the systems...
View ArticleVDP troubleshooting basics
Hi everyone,Some weeks ago I started moving from VDR to VDP since I had problems with VDR and VDR is no more supported in 5.1.At start so far so good but now I have backup errors on half my backup...
View ArticleClone fails with error: error caused by file vm/vm-0000002.vmdk
I was trying to make backup to a the vcenter vm with Veeam B&R 6.5 last patch, and i got the followed error: timed out waiting for all VDDK disks to close, so i tried to fix the error restarting...
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VMware Data Recovery 2.01 - Destination Disk Mounted but does not get Ready
Hello everyone, I have ecounter this issue weird issue with VMware Data Recovery 2.01 where the destination disk gets Mounted but does not get Ready as you can see below. I can´t find a solution for...
View ArticlequeryChangedDiskAreas problem
Hi, I am trying to query the changed blocks of a disk as described in the "designing Backup solutions for for VMware vSphere". For whatever deviceKey I try I get an "invalid argument" error indicating...
View ArticleIntegrity check error Data Protection
Hi All, I have a problem with my DataProtection version 5.11.1.3 (vsphere 5) The Automatic Integrity check failed and I'm not able to do it by myself.When I do a manual integrity check an error message...
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 ArticleLUN signature after RAID controller replacement
I have the following scenario: I got a Cisco UCS server with a LSI controller. I needed to replace the controller for another one, same specs, different model. I did the physical replacement, powered...
View ArticleData Protection Appliance deployed and configured, plugin enabled in vcenter,...
Hi! I have successfully deployed and configured a VDP appliance. The problem is that i cannot access the management plugin in the vsphere web client: it just isn't there. It is in the enabled plugins,...
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