Can not register VDP to vcenter
Hallo, i try to register the vdp to vcenter 5.1. I use the embedde SSO. The settings seems to be OK. But after the connection test, i get an error message box without text. If i change the settings to...
View ArticleVDP ends up dying at every site.....always have to rebuild.
Ive got the basic version of VDP running at three sites (Vsphere 5.5, VMware vCenter Server 5.5.0b, VCB 5.5). Without fail, after a moth or two, its quits running. Vsphere then gives four or more...
View ArticleVDP email configuration no longer works with yahoo or gmail.
I've had the email configuration page set up to email me via my yahoo account for several months. A few days ago, it stopped working with this error: "Send email summary report error: Failed to send...
View ArticleRecovery of a Virtual machine Fails when in SAN Mode.
Hi, I am performing a Recovery of the Virtual machine using SAN Mode and it fails.. I can see the below errors in the log VMDKWrite() :Failed to write to Disk One of the parameters supplied is...
View ArticleVDP Now uses constant bandwidth even during blackout period
The initial issues I've had with VDP forced me to start fresh and make a completely new guest. I deployed an ova for the .5TB VM. I installed it to an NFS datastore. It all installed fine and is...
View Article10 VDP appliance limit
Hello - Does anyone know what options we have once we hit the 10 VDP appliance limit? The limit sounds like it's imposed at the vCenter server level, so I'm assuming in we spin up another vCenter...
View ArticleBackup Exchange and SQL with ERROR !!!
dear, I'm with mounted environment (vsphere 5.5 data protection), can perform backups generating images but have the server environment with multiple SQL and Exchange, install in accordance with step...
View ArticleCBT on Eager Zeroed Disks
Hi All, If a disk is provisioned using thick eager zeroed, will the CBT consider all disk sectors in use and back up the entire disk rather than just the used disk space? How does it work? Please share...
View Articlebackup all looks normal then gets canceled by Administrator???
I have a VDP dedicated to backing up a single mail server. It has run successfully in the past but now fails. Looks like something is stopping backups 1 hour after every run. Anyone see this...
View Articlecheckpoint rollback again
my 2nd vdp appliance is now saying the core services are unrecoverable and I need to rollback. Why is vdp always doing this?
View ArticleVDP: Host is in a state that cannot perform snapshots
We have an VDP Appliance that is backing up one Guest VM fine but the second Guest VM it continues to error out after 10-30 seconds stating "VDP: Host is in a state that cannot perform snapshots." I...
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VSphere 5 and Data Protector 7 - Backup problem -> Nothing happens
Dear all, 4 weeks ago we updated our Data Protector server from Windows 2003 with DP 6.2 to Windows 2008 with DP 7. Since then we have really big backup problems. We are using VSphere 5.0.0 U2 and the...
View ArticleData Recovery Snapshot Error -3941
Hi All, I am currently experiencing an issue with the backup of one VM using Vmware Data Recovery. The VM in question is a Windows 2003 DC. Initially the error we were experiencing was along the...
View ArticleSlow throughput on vSphere and Arcserve r15 VDDK
Hey Guys, I am recently experiencing a performance issue with Arcserve R 15.0 on vSphere 4.1 using VDDK. Without any documented change to our backup environment certain VM Guests have slowed down to...
View ArticleSome VDR errors
Hi guys, I'm having some problems with VDR.There I explain my situation:16 x vm to backup4 x VDR8 x 500 GB disks mounted as Network Share Each VDR backups 4 vm and has 2 disks.There are vm that we want...
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 ArticleHelp with VDP DR test?
Hi all,If you want to get right to the question go to paragraph 4. 1. I'm making good progress with VDP, backed by iscsi volumes on ZFS (zvol.) It's a nice solution running free backup software in VDP...
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 ArticleVDP with Linked Clone
Hello, i'm trying to use VDP in order to backup a VM with a snapshot that acts as Linked Clone snapshot (via the PowerCLI command:"New-VM-LinkedClone"). i'm getting the following error while trying...
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Safe to delete snapshot from failed vdp backup
Hi I had some backups fail last night and on 4 VMs I can see a snapshot that the VDP appliance made during the backup but was unable to remove automatically. (I assume)Since these are some pretty...
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