Hi,
i just tried the upgrade from VDP 5.5 to 5.6 and it stopped with this error message:
Installation of the package stalled
The installation stalled due to an error. Please use your snapshot to rollback the appliance.
1.) error message is not really helpful
2.) i rolled back and tried a 2nd time, no luck
Anybody a clue where to look for detailed error messages?
Thanks
I have used ghettoVCB to restore VMs before with no issue for a VM that contains only 1 hard disk.
Maybe I'm over thinking this but how do you perform a restore with 2 hard disks(C drive and D drive).
The C drive contains the OS and the E drive is for a Net publishing software. I guess I am asking how to perform a restore to that contains both disks.
Every time I try to restore I get the .tgz not supported message:
Hi
I setup my veeam infrastructure with a Veeam Backup manager (virtual) and Veeam Proxy (Physical). The VM backup manager is on the network segment than vcenter. But the proxy and the repository Is on another segment so I want segmented the backup traffic.
At now, I can backup on Veeam repository on 172.17.x.x (backup network) but I don’t able to set the source for use the 172.17 network. It’s use the 128.2.x.x network (network production) and slow my production environment.
Maybe someone can give me a tips for do this ?
Veeam 8
Vcenter 5.5
Nas Qnap for storage (repository and datastore)
Thanks you in advance for your help and excuse my English
Is it possible to edit the vSphere Data Protection summary Report, which I receive every day as an email message?
I can see at the top of this report the number of successfully and failed backups.
But the Problem is, I can't see the failed machine at the top of this Report.
We have more than 300 machines in one VDP backup group and it is difficult to see, which one was failed.
Is there a template or a config file for this report?
EBR Version: 5.5.0_7.0.61-5_1.2.289
vSphere Version: 5.5.0
Hi,
Does anyone know a way of getting daily change rates info for VMs?
I know you can obtain the information via Veeam One. VM Change Rate History: Veeam ONE Dashboards and Reports
However the TOP N value is limited to 10 and I have approx 4,500 VMs I want to run an analysis on these VMs to calculate change rates and determine the amount of storage required for delta snapshot files as we are looking at implementing a new virtualised backup solution based on TSM for VE for the environment in question.
Inbox Repair tool fails to repair corrupt Outlook. Any another method to repair corrupt Outlook?
I'm testing out the vDPA SQL feature and have it working with my vCenter DB server fine and have setup 2 other SQL servers to do some testing and they both fail on the backups. One was a Windows 7 VM with SQL 2012 SP1 and the other is Windows 2012 with SQL 2012 SP1. The configuration seems to be the same on the vCenter DB server and the others but I get an error when trying to manually run the single database backup job. The log doesn't say too much.
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Client Name ::sqltest.mydomain.org | Workorder ID :: null | Completed Time ::Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:10:57 PST
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<browse env-locale-cs="" ack="no" msgver="1" maxelems="-1" cid="d6fc3bd2b0bc57508b92b597cc3fcb25fc7f0832" showdebug="false" />
I did notice in the setup of the job that the test SQL says local while the working one says the server name (attachment).
I had some issues and need to start over with VMware Disaster Recovery . At the moment I don't have a VMDR appliance but some of my VMs have -ctk.vmdk files. How do I get rid of them?
I found this article and followed the instructions. It "fixed" the VMs in question but the -ctk files didn't get removed by the delete all snapshot function.
Thanks.
Hey All,
Experiencing an issue where my jobs for VMs running on local disk are failing due to what appears to be a timeout on the take snapshot action. So at first I thought it was a timing issue, so I looked at that. It takes about 1 minute for quiesed snapshots to actually happen.
I found the other articles that mention you should change the --subprocesstimeout=600 parameter to the /usr/local/avamarclient/var/avvcbimageAll.cmd file, so I did that with no luck. I also tried increasing the snapshot removal time, with no luck.
Still, after applying this and rebooting the appliance no dice, even though the snapshot is completing before the VDP task, it's still failing.
VMware KB: vSphere Data Protection backup jobs fail intermittently
I had another VM work just fine that was on a local SSD, but any disks that are otherwise located on slow local magnetic disk fail.
Looking at the logs, it would appear the most interesting entry is bolded and underlined below, which leads me to the following article, which says, your storage sucks, figure out why your snapshots are taking so long. Anyone have an idea how to increase the timeout when snapshots are being "TAKEN" as opposed to being removed? Next up will try removing queising from the config.
2015-01-23T11:42:45.635+04:00 avvcbimage Info <19704>: DataStore Storage Info:ESX4_Local_ESXi_Installable capacity=1995012308992 free=1682109890560
2015-01-23T11:42:45.635+04:00 avvcbimage Info <19716>: DS Capacity=1995012308992 FreeSpace=1682109890560 / HD committed=57196542066 unCommitted=29917971642 unShared=57196542066
2015-01-23T11:42:46.584+04:00 avvcbimage Info <16001>: Found 2 disk(s), 0 snapshots, and 0 snapshot files, on the VMs datastore.
2015-01-23T11:42:46.584+04:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: isExitOK()=0
2015-01-23T11:42:46.599+04:00 avvcbimage Info <19680>: vmAction runBackupScript: ()
2015-01-23T11:42:46.599+04:00 avvcbimage Info <19681>: vmAction runBackupScript: script is skipped because it is null
2015-01-23T11:42:46.600+04:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: [IMG0009] Pre-snapshot script: completed successfully
2015-01-23T11:42:46.600+04:00 avvcbimage Info <9692>: a VM snapshot has been requested
2015-01-23T11:42:46.600+04:00 avvcbimage Info <14627>: Creating snapshot 'VDP-1422031366f2a36877d42af6c1a25a994c67b393fa02286299', quieceFS=1
2015-01-23T11:42:46.635+04:00 avvcbimage Info <14631>: Snapshot 'VDP-1422031366f2a36877d42af6c1a25a994c67b393fa02286299' creation for VM '[ESX4_Local_ESXi_Installable] <VMNAME>/<VMNAME>.vmx' task still in progress, sleep for 2 sec
2015-01-23T11:42:48.662+04:00 avvcbimage Info <14631>: Snapshot 'VDP-1422031366f2a36877d42af6c1a25a994c67b393fa02286299' creation for VM '[ESX4_Local_ESXi_Installable] <VMNAME>/<VMNAME>.vmx' task still in progress, sleep for 2 sec
2015-01-23T11:42:50.689+04:00 avvcbimage Info <14631>: Snapshot 'VDP-1422031366f2a36877d42af6c1a25a994c67b393fa02286299' creation for VM '[ESX4_Local_ESXi_Installable] <VMNAME>/<VMNAME>.vmx' task still in progress, sleep for 2 sec
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Warning <16004>: Soap fault detected, Query problem, Msg:'SOAP 1.1 fault: SOAP-ENV:Client [no subcode]
"Name or service not known"
Detail: getaddrinfo failed in tcp_connect()
'
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Error <17773>: Snapshot 'VDP-1422031366f2a36877d42af6c1a25a994c67b393fa02286299' creation for VM '[ESX4_Local_ESXi_Installable] <VMNAME>/<VMNAME>.vmx' task failed to start
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Info <19680>: vmAction runBackupScript: ()
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Info <19681>: vmAction runBackupScript: script is skipped because it is null
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: [IMG0009] Post-snapshot script: completed successfully
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage FATAL <0000>: [IMG0003] The VMX '[ESX4_Local_ESXi_Installable] <VMNAME>/<VMNAME>.vmx' could not be snapshot.
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Info <9772>: Starting graceful (staged) termination, Create Snapshot failure. (wrap-up stage)
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Error <0000>: [IMG0009] createSnapshot: snapshot creation or pre/post snapshot script failed
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Error <0000>: [IMG0009] createSnapshot: snapshot creation/pre-script/post-script failed
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: isExitOK()=202
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Info <40370>: snapshot created:false NOMC:false ChangeBlTrackingAvail:true UsingChBl:true, ExitOK:false, cancelled:false, fatal: true
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Info <0000>: vcbimage_progress::terminate
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_EndAccess: Disk access completed.
Basically the article says, your storage sucks, deal with it and get better storage.
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Connect: Establish connection.
2015-01-23T11:43:12.796+04:00 avvcbimage Info <16041>: VDDK:VixDiskLibVim: VixDiskLibVim_AllowVMotion: Enable VMotion.
2015-01-23T11:43:12.798+04:00 avvcbimage Info <16038>: Final summary, cancelled/aborted 0, snapview 0, exitcode 202: plugin error 02
2015-01-23T11:43:14.907+04:00 avvcbimage Info <17819>: VixDiskLib vMotion reservation successfully released
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----- END avvcbimage log 2015-01-23 11:43:17 EST (1 warning, 4 errors, 1 fatal error)
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I have nested three hosts (ESXi 5.5.0, release build 2068190) onto VMWare Workstation 10.0.4, each host assigned 2 vCPU and 6 GB memory, then I installed small VMs (Win XP, Ubuntu 8 and Small Linux ), because all my virtual storage comes from the physical hard drive, so there is no SSD in my storage, I wonder if I add SDHC (it is rated 70MB/s) through USB3, then somehow I could use this SDHC (32GB) as "SSD" card? but I could not figure out, not even knowing if it possible (speedwise?), or I have to have an external SSD drive (say 240GB) and connect using USB3 or Firewire?
here are the two pictures, first shows the SDHC connected to esx3, second picture shows the vmbha35, which refers to the SDHC card (it was formatted to NTFS before connecting to the host)
Thanks!
Hallo VMware Community,
we are running VSA Backup of CommVault SIMPANA. We are using a VSA Proxy. To the Proxy the VMFS-5 LUNs are mapped read-only so that we can use SAN as transport mode for the VMs which are located on that datastores.
We have testet many things but always still getting the error message "Failure Reason:Could not read data from the virtual disk" and the Job failed. At the beginning we started with one Subclient for all the VMs but now we switched to one Subclient per VM so that the jobs are running sequentially step by step but the error still occurs.
Error Code (at SIMPANA Console):
Description: Unable to read the disk [] for virtual machine [xxx] on Host [xxx]. [Beim Verarbeiten der Anfrage ist mindestens ein Fehler aufgetreten., Failed to ReadCurrVmdkFile (W32.774)]
Source: xxx, Process: vsbkp
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:11 89467 stat- ID [readdisk], Bytes [26381910425], Time [133.847090] Sec(s), Average Speed [187.973832] MB/Sec
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:11 89467 CVMDiskInfo::DecrementMaxNDBHandlesAllowed() - Max allowed NBD Open handles for backup are now [0]
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:11 89467 CVMDiskInfo::IncrementMaxNDBHandlesAllowed() - Max allowed NBD Open handles for backup are now [1]
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:11 89467 VSBkpWorker::BackupVMDisk() - Using default extent size
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:11 89467 VSBkpWorker::BackupVMDisk() - Disabling CRC Processing as change Id [52 47 9b 90 ff f5 be 24-37 6c f9 43 a2 89 58 e3/57] is supplied
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:11 89467 VSBkpChangeIdFile::ReadChangeID() - Not using a Change ID
8340 6 01/25 00:33:11 89467 ### GetService --- Reopening connection
8340 6 01/25 00:33:12 89467 ### CVIWrapper::_GetDiskInfoArr --- Updating disk label from [Festplatte 1] to [Hard disk 1]
8340 6 01/25 00:33:13 89467 ### CVIWrapper::_GetDiskInfoArr --- Updating disk label from [Festplatte 2] to [Hard disk 2]
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:13 89467 There are 6 entries in the allocated extent table for xxx.vmdk
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:13 89467 VSBkpWorker::BackupVMDisk() - Extent Size [262144] bytes [512] sectors [512] bytes per sector
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:13 89467 VSBkpWorker::BackupVMDisk() - Sending File Header Path:[\501de18e-3138-67f9-2514-daffc1b51880\scsi0-1-xxx_1.vmdk] with size:[450971566080]
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:13 89467 VSBkpWorker::AddVMMetadataFile() - Adding metadata file [D:\Program Files\CommVault\Simpana\iDataAgent\JobResults\CV_JobResults\iDataAgent\VirtualServerAgent\2\375\VolHdr(501de18e-3138-67f9-2514-daffc1b51880_scsi0-1-xxx_1.vmdk).imf] to list to be uploaded to index cache
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:13 89467 VSBkpWorker::BackupVMDisk() - Backing up disk/volume [xxx_1.vmdk]
8340 1b88 01/25 00:33:13 89467 VSBkpWorker::BackupVMDisk() - Using Fixed Length Extent Names
8340 234c 01/25 00:33:13 89467 VSBkpWorker::ArchiveExtentProcessor() - Send volume or disk data to MA thread
8340 2134 01/25 00:34:35 89467 VSBkpCoordinator::OnIdle_Running() - Waiting for [1] VMs to be processed. [xxx]
8340 2134 01/25 00:34:35 89467 VSBkpCoordinator::DumpStreamInfo() - StreamId = 1, RCID = 189844, ReservationId = 137886, MediaAgent = s190a0010, Agent = s190a0010 []
8340 1b88 01/25 00:34:50 89467 CVMDiskInfo::ReadDisk() - VixDiskLib_Read failed Err=3e80 One of the parameters supplied is invalid
8340 1b88 01/25 00:34:50 89467 VSBkpWorker::BackupVMDisk() - Failed to read from virtual disk [xxx_1.vmdk], [0x80070306:{..\..\..\CommClient\VirtualServer\VMInfo\ArchiveVirtualDiskFile.cpp[CArchiveVirtualDiskFile::GetNextBlock(535)]} + {..\..\..\CommClient\VirtualServer\VMInfo\VmdkVcb4ExtentReader.cpp[CVmdkVcb4ExtentReader::ReadBlock(664)]/W32.774.(Beim Verarbeiten der Anfrage ist mindestens ein Fehler aufgetreten.)-Failed to ReadCurrVmdkFile}]
We are running the latest version of VMware ESXi and also the latest version of the vSphere Server.
Maybe someone of you is also using VSA backup of SIMPANA and can help us to resolve this issue.
Thanks a lot
Best Regards
Philipp
Anyone have a suggestion for free backup software for esxi free version that has a WEB interface and will automatically backup VMs on a schedule? Thanks
After upgrading to 5.8, some of the backups aren't completely fulfilled. I got the following message within the log
A backup/restore/verification activity did not complete within the alloted time and was stopped.
How can i extend the allowed time to backup and solve this problem to complete the backup successfully?
Arjan
My org recently upgraded to vSphere 5.5 from 4.1. Prior to the upgrade we were using VCB to do a weekly dump of all VMs to disk storage as sort of an "ace in the hole" backup mechanism.
We already have a backup program in place that backs up the VMs, and we also use vSphere Replication and SRM. I believe vSphere replication keeps the latest 10 snapshots from each VM, so we do have some point in time restore capabilities with that.
What I'm looking for is a way to get a full weekly SAN level backup of all VMs that I can dump to disk storage and then archive. I understand that VDP has been introduced, but it doesn't really do what I'm looking for. It backs up VMs, but it doesn't just dump them as raw vmx/vmdk files to a filesystem. That's what I want to do. Is there a way I can still do this like I did with VCB in 4.1?
I use VDP 5.8 on Host 5.5 have vcenter tomorrow i login to vcenter and see the name of VDP error follow image.
Please advise
I hope I am posting in the right place.
Having issues with VMWare Data Recovery. Receving a message in VCenter "The Data Recovery Service Did Not Start Up" I have tried stopping and starting the servcie and even have rebooted the Applicance with no luck.
Any ideas?
Hello,
I'm trying to configure a Data Protection on my VMWare environment.
I had three vCenters, LAB, PROD1 and PROD2.
My intention is configure the Data Protection to backup data from two or more vCenters. Do I need to configure one Data Protection per vCenter Server?
Can I perform the cross configuration? Like DataProtection of PROD1 environment backup data from PROD2 vCenter and DataProtection of PROD2 environment backup data from PROD1 environment?
I tried to perform that on initial configuration and received an error telling me that VDP is not find in vCenter inventory.
Thanks
Hello,
I am trying to work with VDP but I am having an issue with my files not displaying after I mount my backup. I am getting no error message at any point, just my mounted backup with no file and an empty screen:
I am running this on a Linux box and attempting to access VDP with Firefox or Chrome. No matter what I try, I get the backup mounted with no issues and it looks as though there are no associated files in the backup pane. When I click the dropdown arrow it says LOADING.... and then loads nothing. After a few hours looking around on google I have only come across this non-error issue only 2 other times and neither of them had a solution. So either someone here did something wrong that is so simple that I am missing it or it is something more complicated. The only thing I could come up with on my own was that there is an issue with my current version of FLASH.
On page 14 under Software Requirements for VDP it says:
VDP 5.5 requires the following software:
Web browsers must be enabled with Adobe Flash Player 11.3 or higher to access the vSphere Web
Client and VDP functionality
When I look at Firefox I am running 11.2. If I go to try and upgrade I get a message that FLASH is no longer going to be updated beyond 11.2 with Linux. I get a little bit of a different thing for updating Chrome, but same idea. How can I use VDP on Linux if I cant update FLASH? Or is there something else I am missing that I should try. If other information is needed please let me know.
Thanks in advance for the assistance
Andrew
Hello.
We have:
We use VDP for full/increment for backup some Mailbox DBs about 700 Gb.
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2015-02-01 21:00:49 avexvss Warning <13061>: Backup operations on Active Exchange Databases may have an adverse effect on Exchange Server performance.
2015-02-01 21:00:49 avexvss Info <12945>: integrity check scheduler>> STARTING.
2015-02-01 21:00:49 avexvss Info <13160>: integrity checker>> Checking SG/DB: DB-1
2015-02-01 21:00:49 avexvss Info <13160>: integrity checker>> Checking SG/DB: DB-2
2015-02-01 21:00:49 avexvss Info <13160>: integrity checker>> Checking SG/DB: Public Folder
2015-02-02 00:48:54 avexvss Info <12946>: integrity check scheduler>> EXITING
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1-st question
How to disable the integrity check of Exchange databases? Integrity check task takes a very long time, it is about 4 hours. I'm not sure that cheking is really needed at every backup job...
During googling I find some documentation for Avamar which have option for disable DB-checking. Unfortunately this option does not exists at VDP or I can not find it.. Help me please.
2-nd question
I have gigabit link between Exchange, VDP and EMC Data Domain where backup stores. But during full backup I see in logs that data transmits with 50-60 Mbit/s speed (every 15 minutes i see in log message that about 5 gb transmitted to EMC DataDomain).
How I can increase the speed of backup?
Currently we are using ESXi 5.5 in Primary Site also is DR Site, for vm backup we are planning to deploy VDP on both the sites.
Both sites we are using separate vCenter Servers.
In regards, of that we have few quries are as below:-
1. Can we use NFS DataStore as a Backup Destination?
2. We VDP Replicate backup vm to DR Site?
3. Can we register same vm in DR site, if yes than how many times?\
Regards,
Mitesh Nandu