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 Out of Date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 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...
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VDP reliability and job durations
Hi there, whilst the backup utilities in the 3.x series and early 4.x series always used to run fine for us it's nothing but down right misery since then. VDP 5.0.x used to last on average for about 2...
View ArticleFailed to create snapshot for vm error -3960
Hi,I am using VDR and getting this error for one of VMs. Failed to create snapshot for vmname, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce virtual machine)Taking the sanpshot manually with quiesce enabled works just...
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 ArticleVDP will not backup Server 2008 R2 - lots of errors
I just downloaded and installed new newest version of VDP on Vsphere 5.1. I had it back up two linux VMs....no probem. I then tried to have it back up a Windows 2008 R2 VM (twice)....both times it...
View ArticleVDP SNMP
Hi folks, is it possible to configure SNMP (Nagios) to track the status of my backup jobs ?I already asked google, but I did not really find any solution. BR,T
View ArticleTime Sync Issue with Data Protection Appliance
Hello, I installed vDP in lab environment to test the product. Everything was working well for few days. Since Saturday, I am facing with this error “the most common cause for this error is that the...
View ArticleRecreating VDR appliance without losing existing backups
Hello, I'm having a bunch of trouble with my existing VDR appliance when trying to do restores - it stopped at 0% on every task and failed with a variety of reasons. I tried logging into the console,...
View Article"Cannot complete operation due to concurrent modification by another...
I've just updated VDP to 5.1.10.32 following Administration Guide. I removed snapshot after update but I'm not able to set disks to "Independent - Persistent“ mode again. I've got "File...
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 ArticleExporting OVF Templates Times Out
I have been trying to export an OVF template using the vSphere Client Version 4.1.0 Build 258902 of a VM from an ESXi server running 4.1.0 Build 260247 using a licensed version of vSphere 4 Standard....
View ArticleRestoring VM's using Netbackup to ESXi host
Hi,In my environment we use Symantec Netbackup 7.1. We backup VM's using our vCenter server to a Netbackup 5000 device & the backups are then copied out to our Disaster Recovery site over a 100MB...
View ArticleRole to create and restore backups
Hi All, we want just start with VDP and I setup an appliance with the version 5.5.1 on our VC 5.1. I can create and restore backups, because I have administrators rights on the VC. The goal is to have...
View ArticleBackup as image to different host
Back in the day of VM-server, I had 2 identical servers - one live, the other for backup. The backup server powered on at 3am each day and ran a script that shut down a VM on the server PC then copied...
View ArticleTroubleshooting VDP Backup Failure - New to VDP
Hello, I have only recently started using VDP after having taken over responsibilities for the VMware environment from the engineer who performed the installation. In familiarizing myself with the...
View Articlevdp job waiting at 92%
Hi all,one of my backup job stop at 92% but i don't know why.I'm reading the vdr-server.log but i can't find particular errors.Which other log have u to read? Tnks
View ArticleVMware Data Recovery vs Veeam?
I am in a new job, and we are using Veeam as our backup solution. Previously we were using Veritas to backup our VM's at the OS level, and this is the way in which I'm using to doing backups. We are...
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 ArticleCould not connect requested vdp appliance
Hi, I have vmware vsphere 5.1 deployed & i m using vdp 5.1 appliance for disk based backup & restore of vm's. Initially when i deployed vdp appliance it's working fine, the only issue i faced...
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