vDP Restore Fails On Machine under vSphere Replication
We have several VMs that are configured to use vSphere Replication. I backed up one of these, and did a trial restore, after a few seconds it fails with the error:"Invalid or unsupported virtual...
View ArticleVDP Now uses constant bandwidth even during blackout period
The initial issues I've had with VDP forced me to start fresh and make a completely new guest. I deployed an ova for the .5TB VM. I installed it to an NFS datastore. It all installed fine and is...
View ArticleVDP failed backup job and retry?
Does anyone know if there is a way to get failed VDP backup jobs to retry automatically instead of it waiting for the next schedule run time which is the next day or going the VM and manually kicking...
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 ArticlePre-freeze script time outs
I'm configuring an environment which uses Veeam for the backups. In order to make the snapshots used by the backup tool application consistent we implemented pre-freeze scipts. We notice however that...
View ArticleRecover Deduped VDR 2.0.1 NFS mounted VMDK with vCenter
Hello, Currently running vSphere 5.0 with HA (2 host servers) and VDR 2.0.1 (1 VDR appliance per host) with 2 backup servers (primary, secondary). Each VDR appliance has 2 virtual disks, 1 for the VDR...
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 ArticleUnable to login to VDP restore client
Hi I've just recently started to use the VDP and am trying to test the file level restore functionality.I'm unable to login to the restore client however. On a VM I have a backup of, I open IE and type...
View ArticleMonitoring vSphere Data Protection Status using cli/script
Hi,I found that the backup scheduler service stopped running in the vSphere Data Protection Status in VDP Config Utility.I would like to monitor service status using a script.I noticed that PowerCLI +...
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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VDP Appliance shows guest vmdks attached to it and as the active disks for guest
After a failed backup job my vdp appliance is left showing in vSphere that it has still guest vmdks attached from at least 5 guests. The guestsThe backup job usually completes in an hour or 2 but was...
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 Restore Thin-Provisoned as Thick-Provisioned ?
Hi, Community. I'm currently use VDP 5.1.10 to backup my environment. and I try to restore vm from backup but have some problem. almost of vm in my environment is thin-provision disk but when I restore...
View ArticleBackup vdpa Exchange 2013
Hallo My customer wants migrate to exchange 2013. Does anybody know at which time vdpa supports exchange 2013. Or at which point a could find the roadmap for vdp (vdpa) Thanks for any answere . Kindly...
View ArticleNew to VDP... need some guidance
We're looking for a backup solution for our vSphere environment. We currently have 5 hosts using a shared iSCSI storage system. We have about 25 VMs (which may be trimmed down to about 20 or less)...
View ArticleVCB Acquiring Disk Lease for snapshot failed
Hi, everytime i´ve tried to Backup my vm´s with VCB i get a error message like " Acquiring Disk Lease for snapshot failed". Before this error, seems that it works well (snapshot will be created and...
View ArticleVDR working for a short while, now CPU pegged and backups inconsistent
I had initially setup VDR about two months ago and all was working well. Then a few weeks ago I noticed that the VDR virtual appliance had a red indicator on it that was telling me the CPU was at...
View ArticleVDP fails to start backup jobs
Hello all, I'm new in VDP. I try to run backup job in VDP, but job not started. In VDP I see failure status whitout any error code. VDP create snaphot and after that remove it. I read KB:...
View Articlere-attach VDP to new vCenter server
Hi all, I needed to wipe my vCenter server and start from scratch due to issues of naming conventions. Historic data loss was not going to be an issue. I cleanly powered down vDP and removed vCenter...
View ArticleBackup VDP appliance with veem to export data on external disk, is it a good...
Hi, I'm using VDP to backup my VM.I wish to backup these data on tape, then I 'm looking for a good solution.I'm testing veeam to backup the VDP appliance on an external disk, then I backup this disk...
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