Alternative to VDP or what’s good for backup?
Does anyone have any recommendations for a backup alternative to VDP? I tried deploying the VDP appliance on our HA cluster and even VMWare doesn’t know what’s wrong. DNS is resolving on the VDP, the...
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 ArticleVDP failing on Server 2012 w/ MS's dedupe
I just started trying to use VDP and the first server I added is my user data server which is a Server 2012 with Microsofts Dedupe. VDP isn't having any of it. Does this mean I'm going to have to go...
View ArticleBackup Solution using Veeam?
Hi there, First of all, i'm sorry for my poor english writing skills. I hope you can understand me. We are planning to use Veeam Backup as our backup solution and I recieved a proposal from a member of...
View ArticleVDP Appliance Network Placement
Currently my VDP appliance is in the Virtual Machine Network. Based on the VDP appliance architechture and the way it performs backups, what is the best/most efficent VLAN to place the appliance in?...
View ArticleBackup best practices in a SAN environment
Hello, Can somone please tell me the best way to do backups using VEEAM in a SAN environment with 3 hosts and 2 arrays with the VMWare Standard Acceleration Kit? I'd prefer not to purchase another...
View ArticleVDR: Slow Integrity check
I have a VDR store that has a size of 180 GB. Integrity check started the first time this morning at 01:00 am. Now it is almost 6:00pm and it is still running with a progress of 20%...
View ArticlevDP simply does not work
I have almost had it with this product (or at least this release).I did a very simple Backup of my VM, and tried to do a restore. The VM is running Ubuntu (if that makes any difference)?, and its VMDK...
View ArticleVADP Recovery Issues for SRM Protected VM
We get the following error when trying to recover a VADP image level backup for a virtual machine which has been protected using SRM: Invalid or unsupported virtual machine configuration.vSphere...
View ArticleVDP 5.1 E30931 Failed to initiate a backup
Hello, I have a problem with VDP backups.Yesterday I restarted my ESXi servers and my SAN. We are using 2x Dell PowerEdge R805 for hosts and a Dell PowerVault MD3000i SAN.Because we are changing to a...
View ArticleLogs VDP
hi guys I have the latest VDP version and I am having problems with some backups... I have no idea since I really don't know what to check I meanwould you mind letting me know which logs I can check?...
View Articlecannot rollback vdp
my vdp appliance failed o start the services and so i tied to rollback o a previous config but failed. any idea what to do now?
View ArticleHowto set up BackupExec 2010 to use SAN transport mode with vSphere 4?
Hi I feel like this question should be answered in at least ten knowledgebase articles and other documentations, yet i seem to be unable to find any of them ... I have BackupExec 2010 and vSphere 4.0...
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 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 ArticleManual backup and restoration of vCenter 5.1
Folks -- Will the new SSO facility change the way we are to restore the vCenter 5.1 server? Are the instructions in KB 1023985 still valid for vCenter 5.1? We have installed vCenter 5.1 on a...
View ArticleVMWare Essentials Kit Backup possibilities?
Hello, We have a very small system with VMware Essentials. 1 host (no vcenter installed)1 virtual server2 virtual pc's How can we do cost effective backups in case of disaster?Should we use Acronis?...
View Articlebackup all looks normal then gets canceled by Administrator???
I have a VDP dedicated to backing up a single mail server. It has run successfully in the past but now fails. Looks like something is stopping backups 1 hour after every run. Anyone see this...
View ArticleEnabling CBT for all ESX VMs ?
Hi, Does enabling CBT for all of the Virtual Machine that is managed by my Virtual Center is a good idea or not supposed to be due to the CBT overhead files ?Do I need to reboot all of the Virtual...
View ArticleCan I move the VDR backups on to tape?
Hi. I've looked in the FAQ and docs for VDR, but I can't seem to figure out if it's possible to move the backed up VMs on to tape or another type of backup media. I understand that the "initial"...
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