Has any one implemented enterprise level backup solution for Vmware enviornment
Hi, We are in process of planning Backup solution for our virtual environment. Looking for suggestions and recommendations from users who have already deployed the solution or are in the implementation...
View ArticleCan not create Snapshot another Task is already in Progress error - 3941
hi all, I hope someone can help me by my problem, I have always gets these error when I want to take a Snapshot: Another Task is already in Progress When my Data recovery runs, I´ll get always...
View ArticleVDR quiesced snapshot question
From VDR's admin guide (page 8)...-For virtual machines created in vSphere 4.0, the Data Recovery appliance creates a quiesced snapshot of the virtual machine during the backup. The backups use the...
View ArticleWhat's the latest on VDR 1.1????
Good Afternoon Everyone, Any more news on VDR 1.1??? Is it ready for primetime or does it still improvement? Stevester
View ArticleVMWare Data Recovery - Performance Issues
i installed VDR over the weekend. and i'm pretty worried about the performance. here are a sample of the backup logs. the odd thing is all of these VM's are THIN provisioned. and are no where NEAR as...
View ArticleFile is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore
Hi, Getting the following error message on running backups through vStorage API (or VCB): File <unspecified filename> is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore...
View ArticleVDR restoration horror stories
I would like to ask the community if anyone has any horror stories regarding restorations from VDR (file and image level). We are evaluating the 1.1 appliance and my management is questioning the...
View ArticleVCB Acquiring Disk Lease for snapshot failed
Hi, everytime i´ve tried to Backup my vm´s with VCB i get a error message like " Acquiring Disk Lease for snapshot failed". Before this error, seems that it works well (snapshot will be created and...
View ArticleIssue backing up VM
If this is in the wrong section then apologies, it's my first post here. We currently have a virtual environment setup with 3 ESX servers, vCentre, a SAN and a backup solution including a HP MSL2024...
View ArticleBest Way to backup up VMs
Hi Everybody, Just lookin for ideas on how to backup my VMs. Currently, we are using CommVault as our Enterprise Backup App and are writing to 4 Data Domain appliances. I know CommVault has backup...
View ArticleVCB Backups failing recently
I'm using a mixed environment consisting of 7 ESX3.5 U1 hosts and 3 ESX 4.0 hosts, backups are done via networker 7.5.1 and a VCB proxy server. Lately some of my backups have been failing, but not...
View ArticleAlthough Early: How is new VDR 1.1 going?
Good Day Everyone, I know that VMware just released its new VDR 1.1 backup solution. However, I would like to know, how is it performing? Is anyone having any issues? ThanksStevester
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vdrfilerestore and vm with multiple drives
I have a vm, that has a 60GB partitioned disk, c and d. when i go to mount that disk using the filerestore utility, its not showing me the d drive, just the c drive???
View ArticleUnable to backup Virtual Machine from VDR
Hello. I am trying to take backup for Window XP virtual machine in VDR, from vsphere client. the destination is network share with full permissions and plenty of free space. The error message in the...
View ArticleTrouble reading from destination volume, error -2241 ( Destination index...
Hi guys, I have started seeing this error everytime the daily integrity check is ran. 9/6/2009 3:36:40 PM: Executing Integrity Check9/6/2009 3:36:40 PM: To Backup Set /...9/6/2009 3:36:40 PM:...
View ArticleVMware Data Recovery step-by-step for newbie's
Firstly I have to say that this post was born due to my frustration with VMware Data Recovery. I was lucky or unlucky enough to be target by few different bugs in all releases, up to 1.0.2. VDR...
View ArticleVDR 1.0.2 - error message during recatalog error -2241 destination index...
Hi, We are getting this error message during recatalog. -2241 destination index invalid/damaged Is it possible to recover from and if so - what should i do?
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 ArticleWhat will be better, please?
Good day!I've asked this elsewhere, but I hope I'll find help here too. I don't know how to backup my computers(37) and shared storage (30TB for now) and how to optimise data communication between...
View Articlecmd.exe copy speed limitation -> Powershell
We are using vcb FullVM to backup our VMs now cmd.exe has the copy speed limitation to about 1GB per minute. Can the use of Microsoft PowerShell break this limitation?
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