Integrity Check Status -> Out of Date
hi guys It's been for a week or so my integrity check status is Out of Data.I try manually running it and it fails. All VDP services are up and running, VDP is at 86% storage utilization. Something...
View ArticleVMware Data Recovery backup destination types
Im testing out VMware Data Recovery and read that it can backup to different destinations. Here is a sentence from the admin guide.You can store backups on network shares, in VMDKs, or on RDMs. The...
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...
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Symantec GRT does not work with VSphere
Hi All,It’s been one of those weeks.... so forgive me if seem a little tired and cross.We upgraded to vSphere a little over 2 weeks ago, and the upgrade went very well, except in one area. Backups....
View ArticleSnapshot backup failed due to VM quiescing
Hi All,When we take snapshot through NetApp VSC plugin most of the VMs not backed up due to the below error. Is there any other method available? How can i fix this? Please suggest me on this.Date-WARN...
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 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 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 ArticleSpace Calculation and retention policy
hi guys I have this scenario right now I have 29 VMs around 3.5 TB storage used. All are Thin provisioned.I have to implement a retention policy like this: Weekly backup on Saturdays and this Weekly...
View ArticleVMWare and Tape Libraries
I am trying to do a direct passthrough of a dell pv124t tape library to a W2K8r2 vm. The vm sees the SAS card that the library is attached to with no issues, but the library is not showing up in...
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 ArticleCan´t use SAN transfer mode after update to 5.1.0 u1
Good morning, After the update from 5.1.0 to 5.1.0 U1 Build 36098 we are not able to run backups with the SAN mode. Before update:2013-06-14T16:00:54.016+02:00 [16168 trivia 'transport'] Transport...
View ArticleData Recovery backup job fails with error -3902
Whenever I run the Data Recovery backup job it creats the VM snapshop and then immediately removes it and fails with the following errors: 6/2/2009 9:11:24 PM: Normal backup using Backup Job...
View ArticleData recovery with iscsi destination
We are testing vmware data recovery. Can I use iscsi backup destination or just smb/cifs share? How can I add it? I didnt find any docs to mentioned about settings. On the features page...
View ArticleVMware Data Recovery Appliance Time issue
Everytime I go into "Configuration / Time" on the VMware Data Recovery Appliance I am told there is more than a 5 minute time difference between the appliance and the vsphere client. On this same...
View ArticleVMware data recovery (VDR) ovf download.
Is VDR's OVF available for download for evaluation purpose ? This is a backup appliance for backup of VMs in vCenter. Can you share the URL for this, if possible. Thankyou,Sanjeev Shrivastava
View ArticleAvamar experiences
Does anyone have any positive or negative experiences with Avamar? We are looking at installing Avamar to backup our VMs to a Data Domain. We have vCenter 4.1, ESX 4.0 & 4.1 and about 200 VMs...
View ArticleVmware Data Recovery cifs not working on Win7
Hi. I have problem with backing up vms to cifs network share on Windows 7 with VMware Data Recovery, version 1.2.1.1616. After some time VDR stop working and I can see this errors in VDR logs:...
View ArticleOpinions on Symantec V-Ray vs Veeam
We are looking at both of the products in the subject line for our DR solution. I can read all the marketing material till I'm blue in the face, however I wanted to here from people who are using them...
View ArticleUnable to connect to upgraded VDR 2.0.1 (existing infrastructure)
Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble in my vCenter environment with the new version of VDR (new for us), 2.0.1. We currently have 7 2.0.0 VDR's running (relatively) flawlessly, however I'm trying to...
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