VDR to VDP Migration | Fails to Attach VDR
Hey there, after our upgrade to vsphere 5.1 / vCenter 5.1 we're trying to get rid of the old VDR Appliance and migrate to VDP. So i deployed one VDP Appliance, shut down the old VDR, took a Snapshot...
View ArticleVDP - File Level Restore - UAC Issue
Hi @all! I've installed VDP-Appliance as documented and have successful made backups for all VM's in my Cluster (3 ESXi-Hosts).Today I tried to use the feature "file level recovery" for some...
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...
View ArticleVDP troubleshooting basics
Hi everyone,Some weeks ago I started moving from VDR to VDP since I had problems with VDR and VDR is no more supported in 5.1.At start so far so good but now I have backup errors on half my backup...
View ArticleIntegrity check error Data Protection
Hi All, I have a problem with my DataProtection version 5.11.1.3 (vsphere 5) The Automatic Integrity check failed and I'm not able to do it by myself.When I do a manual integrity check an error message...
View ArticleCA ArcServe: Unable to map the VM volume to a VM disk image file
Hi, Although this isn't strictly a VMware issue i was wondering if anyone could help me out. My VMware RAW backup using CA Arcserve 12.5 has started to fail with error: AW0551 2010-02-15 12:13:03...
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...
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VMware Data Recovery 2.01 - Destination Disk Mounted but does not get Ready
Hello everyone, I have ecounter this issue weird issue with VMware Data Recovery 2.01 where the destination disk gets Mounted but does not get Ready as you can see below. I can´t find a solution for...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Hosts Sudently Power Down
Hello everyone, I have a client with Essential Plus and he`s setup with 2 hosts ESXi 5.1, vCenter Appliance, Virtual Data Protection. What happened is that a power failure brutally brought the systems...
View ArticleVDR to VDP Migration error
I am trying to perform a migration from Vmware Data Recovery 2.0 to vSphere Data Protection 5.1 2.0TB (Standard). vCenter 5.1u1 in managing a single ESXi4.1 host which is running all of my VMs and both...
View ArticleErr_code: -110 SnapshotVM: Exception Raised - fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
Hi,We use VMware ESXI version 4.1.0 as a host with vSphere Client Version 4.1.0. There are guests with Windows 2003 Srv and Windows 2008R2 Srv. The backup runs on another Windows 2008R2 with CA...
View ArticleLUN signature after RAID controller replacement
I have the following scenario: I got a Cisco UCS server with a LSI controller. I needed to replace the controller for another one, same specs, different model. I did the physical replacement, powered...
View ArticleghettoVcb proble snapshot missing
good morning i have a problem wnen i try backup a virtual machine in esxi 5.1i use ghettoVcb script report this problem .Snapshot found for Windows-2008, backup will not take placei habe delete all...
View ArticleOff-site backup with VDP?
So currently we have vSphere Essentials Plus, with 3 ESXi 5.1 host machines, a dedicated vCenter Server and a ReadyNAS 3200. I'm using VMware Data Protection to do backups of each of the VMs each day,...
View ArticleVirtual Machine backup and recovery.
Hi, We have VSphere 5.0 and would like to find easy way to backup virtual machines not only file level but in case of some problems we would like to be able to easy restore virtual machine as cost of...
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...
View ArticleNew to VDP... need some guidance
We're looking for a backup solution for our vSphere environment. We currently have 5 hosts using a shared iSCSI storage system. We have about 25 VMs (which may be trimmed down to about 20 or less)...
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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 Articlevcenter server 5.1 or 5.0 supports VCB
Dear Team, We have created new VCenter server (5.0 & 5.1), Just want to VCB 1.5 U2 is supported on vCenter 5.0 /5.1 regardsMr VMware
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...
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