VDP 5.5 - Network Copy Support?
Hi There, I've been working with VDP 5.5 recently and have a question regarding backup copy methods -- I know the typical method for backup is that the VDP appliance hot-adds the VMDK's of the backup...
View ArticleVDP Backup job failed E10057
HiI create a new backup job. after 20-30 seconds the start of the backup i see error "VDP: Backup job failed (xxx) to backup client (name). Execution error E10057:A backup/restore/validate activity...
View ArticleFLR restore is showing error most of the times
Hi, While we try to use FLR for restoring the backup from VDP we are getting the following error message Failed to browse backup '<folder name>'. Unable to browse as proxies are unavailable This...
View ArticleVDP 5.5 Gsan Degraded
I'm having trouble with my 1TB vdp appliance, the appliance configure status webpage is showing all services are running but when I login to the appliance and run the command dpnctl status is shows...
View ArticleNetworker 8.0.2 & vCenter 5.1
Dears, hi I have questions regarding to backup VMs hosted on vSphere Env 5.1 & manage by 2 vCenter 5.1 server (1physical & 1virtual =Heartbeat mode) we have EMC Networker 8.0.2 as backup...
View ArticleVDP 2TB image ran out of space on root
/usr/local/avamarclient folder seems to be full of huge log files. Are these safe to delete? 0 bytes left on / How could I have prevented this?
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Linux System Hang When VDP Start to Backup (Snapshot)
Hi all This situation happened when VDP Start to Backup. When snapshot begin. the Linux OS hang.Unless I restart the VM. The VM works again. This situation sometimes ,and happen on different VM. the...
View ArticleAny idea as to when Vsphere Data Protection Advanced 5.5 will be released to...
I would like to get my hands on an evaluations of VDP Advanced 5.5 for testing with my Vcenter 5.5 environment. I can only access VDP Advanced 5.1. Does anyone know when we can began trying out the 5.5...
View ArticleVDP vs VDR
Hi everybody, i couldnt help myself starting this conversation. i was very suprised for VDR being shutdown.i knew VDR would be updated, but was not expectng so soon, since the latest 2.01 was released...
View ArticleVDP - Reinstall of Appliance Issues
Greetings, During my initial installation of VDP using the local admin account everything worked without a hitch.Why i reinstalled the appliance was that i initially tried to change the user that...
View ArticlevDP - Advanced Login for Data Protection Restore Client
Anybody else having trouble with this? The basic logon works fine, but when I try to use the advanced logon (and yes, the user does have vCenter admin rights, as specified in the admin guide, page 42...
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 ArticlevSphare Data Protection option not shown in vSphere Web Client
Hi, I have just upgraded vCenter virtual appliance from version 5.0 to 5.1.0.5100-799730. Then I have installed vSphereDataProtection-5.1.56.179. Deployment and setup finished with no errors. When I...
View ArticleHow to remove/uninstall vDR Plugin...
Dear team, need ur help how to unistall/remove vDR plugin as i m unable to search in vcenter server. regardsMr VMware
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 ArticleHP RDX - testing restore but unable to see RDX drive
We have a Proliant server with an internal (USB-connected) RDX backup drive.I am using Vsphere ESXi 5.1 (free version).The main VM is running Windows Server Essentials 2012 and I have installed the HP...
View ArticleAvamar Gen 4 not taking snapshots of Vcenter or SQL VM's
So in one of our domains that we manage I have an EMC Avamar system backing up our Vcenter which is working fine using Proxies. We have an isolated cluster for our Vcenter server and Vcenter SQL...
View ArticleHow to make full guest OS backup?
What is the best way to make a full guest OS backup in the case that the hardware failed? I want to be able to simply re-install the hypervisor and restore the guest OS instead of reinstall everything...
View Articlevdp appliance no space left on device
I got a no space left on device message on the vdp appliance so I went into /usr/local/avamaclient/var-proxy-x and delete one of the logs that was about 400-500mb there was one on each var-proxy-x...
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