HP Data Protector 6.20 and VMware Granular Recovery Help
Hi all, I have two clients where we have upgraded to vSphere 4.1 Update, as well as HP Data Protector 6.20. Previously, VM backups were performed using VCB. Now with Data Protector 6.20's integration...
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VDR 2.0 for vSphere 4.1 - Management and Licensing
Hi, Can anyone shed some light on the licensing for VDR 2.0? I've got VMware Essentials Plus which gives me VDR but am I licensed to deploy the 2.0 version which appears under vSphere 5.0? Also, if I...
View ArticleVDP not sending Summary Report since Sunday (time change).
I just noticed that the (4) VDP appliances I am testing all stopped sending the Email Summary Report after the Daylight Savings time change on Sunday. the last report was generated Sunday morning at...
View ArticleVDP 2TB image ran out of space on root
/usr/local/avamarclient folder seems to be full of huge log files. Are these safe to delete? 0 bytes left on / How could I have prevented this?
View ArticleCan't Download VM Files using Datastore Browser in vSphere Client 5.1
I have a powered on virtual machine that I am trying to copy over into a lab environment without having to power it off. I'm not able to download the VM files using the Datastore Browser in vSphere...
View ArticleVDR related crashes
HI, We have a virtualized server environment running off 3 physical machine and uses a NAS for shared storage. Each machine has 2-3 VMs running on them, including CentOS and Windows Server 2008 R2....
View ArticleBank6: Not a vmware boot bank - Imaged old boot mirror to larger drives.
As title says, we have a server that had 146Gb mirrored SAS drives and we used Acronis Backup and recovery Advanced server to save a disk image from the raided mirror. After replacing the drives with...
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...
View ArticleUnable to login to VDP restore client
Hi I've just recently started to use the VDP and am trying to test the file level restore functionality.I'm unable to login to the restore client however. On a VM I have a backup of, I open IE and type...
View ArticleBackup on NFS Share - questions
Hi,Just have a few question about my backups: Backup Scenario Source: Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualized on VMware 5.1. C: Disk is "System" D: is "Data". D: size is 1 TB. Purely a File Server.Target:...
View ArticleStorage device is 90% full
HI I moved my VDP from 1 VC to another, unregistered and re registered, had to rebuild my VC after I got some support from VMWare GRRR... Any way I am backing up the same machines and I was sitting at...
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 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 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 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,...
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...
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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 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 ArticleNeed backup help + bare metal restore
Hi all, Long story short....we have a remote site where we are upgading the firmware on the san. The san is old and bunky, and we have reason to believe it may not come back online....so we are...
View ArticleData Recovery Running on Wrong Schedule
I have three vmware virtual machines being backed up nightly by vmware data recovery. My problem is that even though the schedule has from 8:00AM to 8:00Pm blocked out to not run backups i see the...
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