VDR 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 ArticleVDP using NFS storage
Hi I have 2 VDP appliance sitting on QNAP storage (nfs), unfortunately the VM -> datastore -> nfs -> qnap is failing I am not getting the through put I would like. I have noticed that I do...
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 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 ArticleBackup VM´s on a SAN over Ethernet
Dear Community, one of our customers had a three ESXi Hosts running Essentials Plus. This Environment uses shared Storage (a SAN with IBM DS3524). Now he wants to take one host with local storage in a...
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 Articlehow to restore vm from vmdk files
Hi, I have ESX server 4.0 and had a vm. I shutdown the vm and then had copied all the vmdk files. Can someone please advise how can I restore those files to recreate the vm. Many thanks
View ArticleAlternatives to vRanger and Veeam? Both have poor technical support
In non-virtualized environments we generally like to use Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery. We run full/incremental backups to a NAS and copy those off to an external hard drive to be taken...
View ArticleghettoVCB script not removing snapshots. Please help!
Hello everyone, I have ESXi 4.0 up and running with about 5 guest machines. I've set up ghettoVCB.sh to backup one very important vm machine but I'm running into problems. I have mounted an NFS...
View ArticleNetbackup 7.0 full restore - IP address disappears
With BLIB (block level incremental backups) enabled in Netbackup 7, CBT enabled (done through Netbackup and verified through script), Win 2k8 R2 x64 VM, we successfully did a full backup from the...
View ArticleVM console becomes blank
Hi All, VM console becomes blank after restoring from VDR backup, but I'm able to ping the particular system IP address. Kindly help us resolve this. Thanks in Advance
View ArticleVDP - Reinstall of Appliance Issues
Greetings, During my initial installation of VDP using the local admin account everything worked without a hitch.Why i reinstalled the appliance was that i initially tried to change the user that...
View ArticleTips for Troubleshooting VDP
Can anyone give me any tips on troupbleshooting, or even checking the status of, VDP? I would like to do the following: 1. Check if a backup job is running. 2. See what machines are being backed up at...
View ArticleVMware Data Protector issues
Hi all, I have struggled for many months with the unreliable nature of VMware Data Recovery and decided to bite the bullet over the weekend and install VMware Data Protector. After much cursing and...
View ArticleVDP Fails to Start
When I try to start my VDP appliance, the vm boots and then sits at "Starting VDP appliance systems. Estimated time to complete: 10 minutes." But it never gets passed this point. We recently move the...
View Articlehow to reduce used capacity in data protection?
A customer of ours uses vSphere Data Protection.In the reports, I see that Used Capacity is growing at 1%~2% per day.It has reached 86.31%.We removed old backup some days ago, so it should have been...
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 ArticleVsphere Data Protection 5.1 - I/O Error
I having the Vsphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.1 and trying to deploy the VDP to the NAS which is mounted by the vSphere host through NFS. After finish deploying the VDP, I receive an I/O error when...
View ArticleVDP / VDP advanced and unsupported disks
According to best practices - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vmware-data-protection-administration-guide-5120.pdf "When planning for backups, make sure the disks are...
View Articlevmware essentials + Veeam Backup FREE Edition
Hi, Couple of questions and need some advice please. Network PlanHost 1 - 2 x 3Ghz Qurd Core CPUs with 16GB Ram, 2 x 1TB Raid 1VM - Windows 2012 Standard - PDC, Exchange, DNS, DHCPVM - Windows 2008 R2...
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