VMware VADP do I have to get Ent or Above
Gents, Hi we have planning to upgrade our backup to EMC networker v8, & now in process to get vSphere Standard 5.1 do we need to reconsider of get vSphere Enterprise or Enterprise plus for VADP...
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...
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pay-as-you-go or pay-per-use licensing model for a backup solution?
Hi, We were quite happy with (tuned) VDR, which is unfortunately not supported any more in vSphere 5.1, and we are literally scared to move to VDP since there are so many open issues (we wouldn't like...
View ArticleAll backup jobs are failing - getJobError... ???
Hello,I´m running vSphere Data Protection 5.1. and I have a "little" problem that needs to be solved. All my backup jobs are failing and I can´t find out why. When I look into...
View ArticleVPD vCenter Registration Test Connection fail
Hi everyone, I come across a problem while setting up VPD, I am trying to deploy VDP for our foreign office, their ESXi hosts are managed under our vCenter, The installation looks fine, DNS...
View ArticleVDP Remove and Install to new host
Hi - I am currently running VDP 5.1 on an old ESXi 5.1 host.I have bought a new ESXi host running 5.1 U1I would like to upgrade to VDP 5.5.1 but would rather install a fresh copy of VDP 5.5.1 on the...
View ArticleOverride language of VDP configuration web UI?
Hi,my comapny recently moved to vSphere 5.5 and we're now using VDP, version 5.5.1.356.My issue is that the VDP configuation web pages are always displayed in the language I use for keyboard layout and...
View ArticleCan VDP be managed via the Windows vSphere Client?
Can VDP be managed using the old Windows vSphere client, or do you have to use the new web GUI? I'm at an organization where vCentre is at the parent company and they've not yet rolled out the Web GUI...
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 ArticleBE2010 Attempts to mount vmdk: "Host is not licensed for this feature"
Hi all, I'm trying to use Backup Exec 2010 to perform full/incremental backups of our VM's with GRT enabled. However, at the end of every job, I get a warning saying that it failed to mount the...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Unresponsive on Snapshot Removal (30 seconds+) when CBT enabled
Hi, I have a couple virtual machines on a NFS datastore running on a NetApp Filer. Everything works well normally. The storage is not overloaded. On my regular virtual machines, never backed up using...
View ArticleWe can’t make quiesced VMware Snapshots on a VM with Exchange 2010 in a RDM LUN
Hallo, first i must say, that we don't need a backup of the Exchange 2010 enviroment, this will be taken with NetApp SnapManager for Exchange. But the OS VMDK files are on a NFS Datastore and this...
View ArticleProblem with Windows server 2012 Failover Clustering setup
Hi, I have a strange issue regarding setup of MS cluster on server 2012, after i follow to the letter the instruction how to setup in the box cluster i get error on cluster validation. I have vcenter...
View ArticleVADP Recovery Issues for SRM Protected VM
We get the following error when trying to recover a VADP image level backup for a virtual machine which has been protected using SRM: Invalid or unsupported virtual machine configuration.vSphere...
View ArticleRemove VDP?
How do I completely remove VDP from my environment? I've found some instructions on-line but every VM still has com.vmware.vdr.is-protected and com.vmware.vdr.protected-by in their notes section.
View ArticleVDP Scheduler won't start
hi guys suddenly my Backup Scheduler won't start (I can see that in status VDP configure tab). It was working fine.I manually start it. No go.I used command: dpnctl stop mcs - dpnctl start mcs. Same...
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 ArticleVDP LUN to be backed up by TSM
Hello Team,Has anyone backed up their VDP LUN(Where VDP dumps its backup of the Vms) to the Tape drives using TSM. I am looking forward to implement that , so wanted to check if any one has implemented...
View ArticleVADP and allowing MS Windows access to a VMFS LUN
Hello - We're starting to explore the use of VADP backups with EMC Networker, and a config option we have is to use the "SAN" transport mode, which allows LAN-free backups and puts the load on the...
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