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I have been tasked with developing a backup/recovery plan for our 4 host ESXi 4.1 cluster, planning to upgrade it 5.5 shortly. This plan can include software and hardware from VMware, veeam, IBM,...
View ArticleVMware Data Protection 5.5.6.56 - VDDK:VixDiskLibVim: ESX/ESXi host is not...
Hello, after I managed to upgrade to the latest VDP Version 5.5.6.56 I can no longer run a Backup job. When I trigger the start of any I get the following error: Error 10055: VixDiskLib_Open attempt...
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Safe to delete snapshot from failed vdp backup
Hi I had some backups fail last night and on 4 VMs I can see a snapshot that the VDP appliance made during the backup but was unable to remove automatically. (I assume)Since these are some pretty...
View ArticleDifferences between VDP and Vmware data recovery
hi, I wonder if vSphere5.1 has changed the name of vmware data recovery to VMware Data Protection(VDP).I found the download link shows Vmware data recovery before vSphere5.0 and Vmware data protection...
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 ArticleVDP appliance not visible in web client
Hallo guys, I installed VDP appliance (1T) in my DMZ environment, but I have some problems. Installation and configuration succesfull, everything looks right, but I can't resolve why vSpehre Data...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 e VDP 5.5.1: Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory
When I try to registration a new VDP 5.5 on vCenter 5.5 I have the error: Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory. For user, I have used "administrator@vsphere.local" or...
View ArticleVDP: Host is in a state that cannot perform snapshots
We have an VDP Appliance that is backing up one Guest VM fine but the second Guest VM it continues to error out after 10-30 seconds stating "VDP: Host is in a state that cannot perform snapshots." I...
View ArticleVDP, CBT and write-intensive disks
My organization is fairly small and we're exploring our enterprise backup solution options. I've been tasked with coming up with an approach that meets certain requirements, one of those being nightly...
View ArticleFailed to connect to VDP file level recovery client
Hello, I'm trying to connect to the file level recovery client of a VDP appliance from a virtual machine backuped by this appliance.Unfortunately after writing my local machine administrator...
View ArticleArcserve RAW VM backup -
I have ESXi 5.1 & ESXi 5.5 hosts, both using custom HP DL360 images (Gen8). When trying to backup a raw VM with Arcserve 16.5 (patched to latest release & support for ESXi 5.5 etc), i get this...
View Articleintergrity check keeps failing
Hi all, We have a ESX 5.5 with vCenter 5.5 and VMDR 2.0.2 environment, and our VMDR appliance keeps failing with the integrity check. Now I know how to solve it, by marking those points for deletion...
View ArticleVDP Backup Failure with Windows 2012 R2 Domain Controller
I've tried several times to backup our domain controller (NTS501-PDC01), each time it fails at the 'create snapshot step', with the 'VDP: Backup Job' task, for it, failing shortly before the (separate)...
View ArticleVDP: [004] The VDP appliance datastore is approaching maximum capacity
Hi, I've got this alarm "VDP: [004] The VDP appliance datastore is approaching maximum capacity" because the datastore where i have the VDP virtual disks is almost with the exact size of the virtual...
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 5.5 Failed to get the datastores with performance analysis information
Hi all, I have two VDP appliances running version: 5.5.5.180. All of a sudden I cannot connect from Web Client to either appliance. VDP status show all services as green on both VDPs. root@vdp:~/#:...
View ArticleVDR email notifications working...
We've managed to get email notifications working from our VDR installation (1.1.0.707). It certainly is not the most elegant solution; but I am hoping by sharing it with the community that it can be...
View ArticleVMWare data recovery error when backing up Server 2003
Hello all, I am using VDR to backup my VM's and it works for most of the systems except on Windows 2003 SP2 machine that we recently created with a Physical to Virtual conversion. The backup fails...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Unresponsive on Snapshot Removal (30 seconds+) when CBT enabled
Hi, I have a couple virtual machines on a NFS datastore running on a NetApp Filer. Everything works well normally. The storage is not overloaded. On my regular virtual machines, never backed up using...
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