VDR reclaim job and shrinking datastore?
Has anyone actually been able to tell if the reclaim job actually does anything to reclaim space because my storage usage only increases and never shrinks in size. I've even decided to do a test where...
View ArticleTSM VE or TDP for VMware
Hello, I'm looking for some recommended VM sizing for the TSM/TDP VBS. My backup admin states that the VM should be sized with 2 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM. That seems a bit large at first glance. Does anyone...
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 ArticleBackup VDP appliance with VDP, a good idea ?
Hi, I'm using vsphere 5 with 3 esx V4 I'm testing VDP, as we can't backup on tapde the VDP data, I suggest to backup the VDP appliance (and data) with VDR on a CIFS folder. Then I will be able to...
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VDP: Failed to attach disk
Hi everyone, I've tried everything I could for the past 2 days and I am still geting this... I have reinstalled it 4 times so far and still same thing!I CAN ping from within VDP shell the esxi hosts,...
View ArticleEBRA and EBRA Porxy Installation with vCenter 5.5 and NetWorker 8.1
Hi, I have several questions below: 1) Can EBRA and EBRA Proxy OVA be installed with vCenter 5.5 without DNS? If the /etc/hosts files in all the conerned hosts are fully configured should it work? or...
View ArticleThe VDP appliance don't show up in vCenter Web Client ?
Hi: I have just installed Data Protection 5.1,the installation process without error, and display the Data Protection has been registered to the vCenter server, but don't show up in vCenter Web Client....
View ArticleVMware support for VDP standard
Hi all, how can i obtain support for the vmware vdp (not the advanced version)? How can i open an "official" support case?
View ArticleHow to install cron to the VDR appliance?
It seems like VMware has really gone out of their way to make backing up this appliance difficult. I've finally figured it out. Backup the datastore via a read-only NFS mount on another server....
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...
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A bit of encouraging words for the VMware Data Protection appliance
Hi, Recently we have switched our backup services from VMware Data Recovery to VMware Data Protection (without migrating backup jobs and data from VDR, we did fresh config and fres backups in VDP). So...
View ArticlePrevent VDP from deleting only recovery point
We have extremely short retention policies for some jobs - effectively, I just need the latest copy of a VM stored as a backup (1-day retention if you will). However, if a job or backup of a VM fails,...
View ArticleConfiguration tab freezes up always
We are having issues with accessing the configuration tab in the data protection plugin from the vsphere client. Everything else works just fine, we are able to access all four other tabs such as...
View Articlecan i have 2 x vdp appliances backing up the same guests??
being a bit paranoid about backups and really liking VDP i am wondering if having 2 appliances backing up the same guests would be ok. i would of course stagger the time of backups to not overlap. as i...
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VDP Management service start failed and can't get into VDP panel
Hi everyone Now my VDP 5.5 can not start management service. I try starting many time and also try rolling back but it's still not come back to running stage.Screenshot below show me everytime I try to...
View Articlewhy can't I login into the vsphere data protection restore client?
when I try to login everytime,I got the error:"can not locate the VM".First,I thought my login acount was not correct,but I tried every kinds of acounts,such as...
View ArticleVDP not sending Summary Report since Sunday (time change).
I just noticed that the (4) VDP appliances I am testing all stopped sending the Email Summary Report after the Daylight Savings time change on Sunday. the last report was generated Sunday morning at...
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VDP 0,5TB integrity check fails
I'm running Vcenter 5.1 with 4 x ESXi 5.0.0 76811 hosts. I've implemented two VDP appliances 1 x 0,5TB and 1 x 1TB . Integrity check fails with 0,5TB VDP backup appliance. Everything is okay with the...
View ArticleVDP Fails to Start
When I try to start my VDP appliance, the vm boots and then sits at "Starting VDP appliance systems. Estimated time to complete: 10 minutes." But it never gets passed this point. We recently move the...
View ArticleBackup Solutions ESXi 5 Free
I'll say sorry up front if this topic has been talked about to death but i need/want to ask for any best practices and include my current setup I will preface to say i work in a public library and we...
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