Best backup system or data recovery system?
What is the best or most commonly used backup/restore system for a vSphere environment using iSCSI shared storage?
View ArticleWhy does the snapshot process hang my VM's
Good Morning All, Thanks for taking the time to look! I have an issue with numerous virtual servers on our server estate. When VEEAM backs-up the server it takes a snapshot, when the back-up is...
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 ArticleVMware Data Recovery: Rehearsel Recovery produces error message 'Trouble...
Hi, we backed up a hardware level 4 machine in vCenter 4 from an ESX 4.0 with VMware Data Recovery appliance 1.0.1.362 without errors.Afterwards we'd tried to do a rehearsel recovery an got the error...
View ArticleUsing VEEAM to replicate to external hard drive
I'm setting up a new ESXi 4.1 environment. I have 3 hosts connected to a Equalogic SAN. I also have 1 Standalone ESXi 4.1 host in an offsite location that I only plan to turn on in a DR scenario at...
View ArticleProblem with Windows server 2012 Failover Clustering setup
Hi, I have a strange issue regarding setup of MS cluster on server 2012, after i follow to the letter the instruction how to setup in the box cluster i get error on cluster validation. I have vcenter...
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 ArticleVDP Scheduler won't start
hi guys suddenly my Backup Scheduler won't start (I can see that in status VDP configure tab). It was working fine.I manually start it. No go.I used command: dpnctl stop mcs - dpnctl start mcs. Same...
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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 ArticlevDR stopped backing up
I've been using VDR 2.0.1 for a few months now, with two 500GB NFS shares mapped in following the guides available. This has been working far better than the previous CIFS method I was using, and I've...
View ArticleData Recovery error -1103 (write protected) during backup
Hello,I have a problem during backup of a couple of virtual machines.Every time job starts, following error occurs: Can't access destination /SCSI-0:1/, error -1103 (write protected). See attached...
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,...
View ArticleCan't connect to VDR Appliance from vSphere
Hello, I'm having a heck of a time getting VDR working on one of my clusters and have been searching these forums trying just about everything I can think of. Hopefully someone can shed some light on...
View ArticleVDR 2.0.1, /dev/sdb/ - unmounted physical disc, destinations
Hi All, I have a problem with my VDR 2.0.1, last backup was failure due to power problems and after that on VDR destinations where i had normally one network destination, stay another one, unmounted...
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 ArticleghettoVcb proble snapshot missing
good morning i have a problem wnen i try backup a virtual machine in esxi 5.1i use ghettoVcb script report this problem .Snapshot found for Windows-2008, backup will not take placei habe delete all...
View ArticleVADP and Using NFS?
So I am new to VDP and have a few questions related to using NFS. The environment that we are working with was an old VDR environment that was using NFS and a NAS only storage array. While reading...
View ArticleRestarting VDP hangs at starting VDP appliance systems.
estimnated time to complete: 10 minutes. But it has been much longer than 10 minutes. Powered off and powered on. Didn't help
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 ArticleVMworld 2013 Announcement - Free Backup for Free ESXi
At VMWorld 2013 on Aug. 28, Unitrends announced a new and improved free edition of its Unitrends Enterprise Backup software for up to four virtual machines that runs on the unlicensed -- free--...
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