How to Copy VM from one site to another which are not connected...
Dear Team, We want to transfer one Virtual Machine image from one site to second site, without effecting Source VM. want to know following 2 methods will work .... Method 11) Take clone of Source VM2)...
View ArticlevDR with vSphere 5.1 (Don't want VDP!)
We have two vSphere/ESXi installations, one (the primary setup) running vSphere5.0U1 with a 3-node ESXi 5.0U1 cluster, the other (secondary) is vSphere 5.1 with another 3-node ESXi 5.0U1 cluster. I...
View ArticleLimiting number of parallel backups in VDP
Is there any way to limit the number of parallel/concurrent backups in VDP?The initial backup is killing our storage, so I thought maybe I'll take my time and backup my VMs one by one, and after the...
View ArticleVDP crash
Hi,Two days ago i need to restore some file from a vm with windows 2003. The restore job started but it hang at 92%. After several hours I decided to cancel the job.The vdp vm crashed. After a "Restart...
View ArticleThe VMDK filename is not valid or present. Verify that the proxy was...
Hallo all, I have successfuly performed a backups of 20+ VMs using VDP. The VM's are installed in a SAN. When I try to perform a restore of individual files (flr method), I get the message: "The VMDK...
View ArticleHelp with VDP DR test?
Hi all,If you want to get right to the question go to paragraph 4. 1. I'm making good progress with VDP, backed by iscsi volumes on ZFS (zvol.) It's a nice solution running free backup software in VDP...
View ArticleCannot Backup Virtual Machine using VDP
I had deployed VDP, but i could not back up a Windows Server 2008 64 bit virtual machine using vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.1, i get the following error: Execution Error: E10055: Failed to attach...
View ArticleVDP Upgrade: connect iso on power on?
I was wondering if the vdp upgrade iso needs to be configured in vm settings to connect on power on or just connected. The upgrade guide mentioned it could take a few hours to upgrade but I'm assuming...
View ArticleVDP Error at vCenter Registration
Hi,I am unable to register VDP to vCenter, i am getting the following error "Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory." or sometimes i am getting "The connection test did not complete...
View ArticleVDP with Linked Clone
Hello, i'm trying to use VDP in order to backup a VM with a snapshot that acts as Linked Clone snapshot (via the PowerCLI command:"New-VM-LinkedClone"). i'm getting the following error while trying...
View ArticlevADP Features and Backup Vendors Integration - Overview
Dear community, I am completing a technical deep dive of VMware vADP features and their integration in Symantec NetBackup v7.5.x.I am interested to see what the other backup vendors are doing in this...
View ArticleIt's possible to backup a VM using the VADP-API without CBT (in Simpana 9.0) ?
Hi, we are using the "virtual backup agent" from Commvault SIMPANA 9.0 to take an "DR-Backup" of our VM's every weekend.Our problem: We are run into problems with VMware Horizon View, if CBT...
View ArticleAvamar Backup with VMware
Hi,We had # of ESXi host and Avamar backup application integrated. We are running very fine.But there is one issue we are facing it with Avamar. There are delta files which are leftover in the...
View ArticleBackup fails due to quiescing
Hello Since upgrading our environment from 5.0 to 5.1 we are having problems backing up several VM'sWe use the Netvault Backup, with the VMware Plugin, to backup our VM's When a backup job is run...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hosts Sudently Power Down
Hello everyone, I have a client with Essential Plus and he`s setup with 2 hosts ESXi 5.1, vCenter Appliance, Virtual Data Protection. What happened is that a power failure brutally brought the systems...
View ArticleVDP on thin disk (free space
Hi, I wish tho test VDP before leaving VDR.I have read in the documentation we can use thin disk rather than thick disk to install VDP (I have not enough space disk). But I don"t see this option...
View ArticleVMWare data recovery error when backing up Server 2003
Hello all, I am using VDR to backup my VM's and it works for most of the systems except on Windows 2003 SP2 machine that we recently created with a Physical to Virtual conversion. The backup fails...
View Articleusing ghettoVCBg2 over slow nas advisable?
Hi! does anyone has any experience with ghettoVCBg2 with remote NAS targets? The Nas would be at an other geographical location so the effective bandwidth would be about 60-80 Mbps so the backups...
View ArticleESXi firewall preventing networker from backup ?
We have networker 7.6.0 build 194 installed on 32bit windows 2003 SP2 server. This is the networker server. Client is 7.5 SP3, This is the virtual client running windows 2008 R2 64bit on ESXi...
View ArticleVDR snapshot getting stuck in progress
I have a specific VM (Windows 2008 R2 64-bit) where the snapshot is getting stuck "in progress" when VDR 2.0 (latest version) runs on it. This just started happening after months of having the backups...
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