Backup 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 Articleanother task is already in progress
We have using CA Arcserve and VCB to perform the backup of VM's Recently i've noticed that some VM's are no longer reporting performance data in the "Performance" Tab of VCenter. Furthering digging,...
View ArticleVDP - Backing up Vcenter Server or Restore if vcenter dies
Many of my customers have very simple installs with a single SAN. I have a test environment right now where I have 2 esxi hosts and a san. One of the hosts has a local datastore. I am using the local...
View ArticlevDP and vCenter Scenario
OK, so it seems I need to use the webclient to access vDP, but this means pointing my browser at the vCenter IP.This is fine, but now, suppose we have the following scenario: We use vDP to backup...
View ArticleVDP CPU Usage
Hi All,I recently deployed a VDP appliance to replace VDR in our 5.1 enviroment, backing up through a FC EMC CX3-40f SATA array. As soon as I setup the appliance (which was a nightmare due to the DNS...
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 ArticleAll VDP Servers Stopped working
We have 8 VDP servers running in our environment and about 10 days ago they all stopped working. We haven't made changes to the firewalls nor have we made changes to vCenter but when I tail this log...
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 ArticleMove a esxi 4.1 install from HDD to SD card
Hello, We have 2 Dell R815 servers each with 2 drives in RAID 1 where esxi 4.1 free is installed. The servers have SD card slots but we did not use them when bought. I am planning to populate the slots...
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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 Articlevcenter server 5.1 or 5.0 supports VCB
Dear Team, We have created new VCenter server (5.0 & 5.1), Just want to VCB 1.5 U2 is supported on vCenter 5.0 /5.1 regardsMr VMware
View ArticleMissing backups, restores, jobs... after reboot.
Hi all, After some maintenance i had to reboot ESX's machines (with Vcenter, VDP, etc) and when i entered vSphere Web Client i can't find any backups or jobs, anything. I tried to reboot again VCenter...
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...
View ArticleVDP vs VDR
Hi everybody, i couldnt help myself starting this conversation. i was very suprised for VDR being shutdown.i knew VDR would be updated, but was not expectng so soon, since the latest 2.01 was released...
View ArticleData Protection 5.1 will not start up - DNS error
We are small users with only 3 hosts. 2 hosts are running ESXi 4.1, and I am in the process of installing a new third host. We currently rely on Data Recovery and so the new, allegedly more robust,...
View Articlecould not backup windows 2008 64 vm 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 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 ArticleHow to reduce downtime
Hi guys, my customer asks me for providing a solution to allow him to apply planned maintenance to the Sql Server and Application server with minor impact on production (reducing downtime).It means...
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...
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