Avamar Gen 4 not taking snapshots of Vcenter or SQL VM's
So in one of our domains that we manage I have an EMC Avamar system backing up our Vcenter which is working fine using Proxies. We have an isolated cluster for our Vcenter server and Vcenter SQL...
View Articlevdp backup status stuck at 22%
vdp bnackup status is stuck at 22% now. But I see the backups have completed already when i go to the restore tab I see the latest backup there. any ideas? there are no other vm virtual disks mounted...
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VDR (daterecovery process) suddenly started repeatedly crashing
Hi, Suddenly all of our Data Recovery appliances started repeatedly crashing. The appliance VM itself is running OK, but the datarecovery service is crashing soon after the service starts. So all of...
View ArticleClone (Ghost) Physical ESX Hard Drive
All I currently have a 4 ESX host lab and I am looking to find a way to clone the physical hards (i.e. ghost for Windows Machines). I have several individuals that have access to the lab and make...
View ArticleIs there any LAN free backup solution for vSphere?
Currently, I am testing vDR solution for vSphere. I think it isn't a LAN free solution. Is there any LAN free backup solution for vSphere? Thanks in advance.
View ArticleVDR 1.1 How to Remove Damaged Restore Points
I need to remove some damaged restore points, but what do i need to do after i mark them for delete, i.e. how do i delete them or run a manual reclaim job? also. what is the ramification to restore...
View ArticleCreating a snapshot with quiesce guest succeedes, but triggers vss-error in...
Hi I'm trying to backup my virtual DC, running Server 2008 R2. The Computer has all windows updates and Vmware Tools installed. When creating a snapshot (quiesce guest file system is active, but...
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VMware Data Protection (VDP) and vCenter Local User
Can VDP be set up using a local, non-domain, user account? I have followed the VDP admin guide, but cannot get past the vCenter registration step, I have been installing the VDP appliance on my laptop...
View ArticlevSphare Data Protection option not shown in vSphere Web Client
Hi, I have just upgraded vCenter virtual appliance from version 5.0 to 5.1.0.5100-799730. Then I have installed vSphereDataProtection-5.1.56.179. Deployment and setup finished with no errors. When I...
View ArticleVDP: heavy traffic on lo
Hi,I successfully restored one VM last Thursday. I'm checking CPU Usage of VDP now and it increased to three times since then. Two java processes run constantly and I can see heavy traffic on lo (25...
View Articletask terminated unexpectedly possibly due to a power failure or system crash
When I try to recovery my portal with VDR, I faced the issue with log as below: Feb 3 18:49:23 localhost datarecovery: Chunkdedupe WARNING: Duplicate value for key...
View ArticleVDP - File Level Restore - UAC Issue
Hi @all! I've installed VDP-Appliance as documented and have successful made backups for all VM's in my Cluster (3 ESXi-Hosts).Today I tried to use the feature "file level recovery" for some...
View ArticleVDP Logs and Troubleshooting.
Hi All I have been using VDP for a few weeks now and it has been running without too many issues. In the last day or so I have seeing backups fail on 2 of my appliances. I would like to know the reason...
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 ArticleError in using VDR
I installed VDR successfully and made a scenario to back up VMs to an external USB drive.I prepared and mounted an external USB drive as "SCSI-1:0". I made a backup job with specific properties for my...
View ArticleVDP not loading in web client
Just upgraded vCenter 5.0 to 5.1 and installed VDP along with it. The plug-in shows in the web client and I've configured VDP accordingly. All services (except for maintenance) are running on the VDP...
View ArticleVDP slow Performance
Hi I've a few questions about VDP. I have to save more than 150 VMs with VDP, so it's important to backup the vms in less time. Can someone describe the tasks taken in the backup process? (detailed)...
View ArticleUnable to configure vdp
Hi, After trying to reinstall my vdp appliance, I'm unable to configure it : Acces to https://vdp:8543/vdp-configure/ is OK I type changeme, fill all the forms, test connection is OKI type Finish ->...
View ArticleCannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot operation...
Then i try to backup VM using VDR the following error occured: Create virtual machine snapshotCannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for...
View ArticleVMware Data Recovery vs Veeam?
I am in a new job, and we are using Veeam as our backup solution. Previously we were using Veritas to backup our VM's at the OS level, and this is the way in which I'm using to doing backups. We are...
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