VDP 5.1 Workarounds for flr
Are there any alternatives for accessing file level restores (flr) in vdp. 5.1 that don't involveaccessing the flr website on the vdp appliance from a vm which has flash that was backed up by that vdp...
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VDP won't start
hi guys my VDP latest version is up well looks like up but when I try to connect from Web vSphere I get this error. The SSO server could not be found. Please make sure your SSO configuration on the...
View ArticleVDP is losing schedules
Hi, From time to time one of our VDP appliances crash and randomly loses all backup schedules it had. Backup data from VMs seems to be therethere though. Is there any way to restore that backed up data...
View Articleis ovf template and manual backup is same
Hi , i'm running esx 4.1, i want to know which is the best way to back up vms, i backed up vm via both OVF and manual copy pasting the whole directory. but comparitively OVF template showing size in...
View ArticleBackup Problem with CommVault Simpana 9 SP3
Hey,I have a problem with back up my virtual guests over CommVault Simpana 9 SP3. Every time I try to back up a vSphere 5 VM I got following Error from Galaxy Server: Description: Unable to download...
View ArticleBackup vCenter Server virtual machine with vSphere Data Protection 5.1
Hi all.I'm using vSphere Data Protection 5.1 on a vCenter Server 5.1 infrastructure and I noticed that all bakcups works fine except for the vCenter Server virtual machine.Looking at the logs, there...
View ArticleAuth problems with VDP Restore Client and Linux guest
Hi,I´m trying to get VDP and the restore client to work on a linux guest.I got it working on a windows guest but on linux I get this error when I logon with the local credentials for the root user on...
View ArticleBackup traffic, vDP & vCenter resiliency
Hi, I am currently evaluating vDP with the Essential Plus product and have a few concerns with functionality. I have two ESX 5.1 Hosts using local disk, each at thier own seperate site. One host runs...
View ArticleThe VMDK filename is not valid or present. Verify that the proxy was...
Hallo all, I have successfuly performed a backups of 20+ VMs using VDP. The VM's are installed in a SAN. When I try to perform a restore of individual files (flr method), I get the message: "The VMDK...
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fix for reoccurring integrity check failure in VDR
I just want to let you know that after more than one year of hard debugging with VMware Support there is a solution for the reoccurring integrity check failure in our VDR environment. They were not...
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 ArticleBackup Network configuration
Hi All, I am creating a seperate backup network with one nic for our backups. I have one vswitch for our service console and vmkernel with two nics, another vswitch for our VM network and two nics. I...
View ArticleBacking up the SQL server database used by vCenter using Image Level backup
Suppose the SQL server used by vCenter Server is on a VM, and I use an image level backup tool to backup the virtual machine that SQL server is running in. Is it also necessary to backup SQL server...
View ArticleVDP: heavy traffic on lo
Hi,I successfully restored one VM last Thursday. I'm checking CPU Usage of VDP now and it increased to three times since then. Two java processes run constantly and I can see heavy traffic on lo (25...
View ArticleBare Metal Restore of ESXi using Data Recovery Server
I was wondering if this is possible or if anyone has tried this.ESXi 5.0 with update 1DR Server 2.0.1 The idea I have is to Use DR Server on the ESXi host it will be backing up.In other words, DR...
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 ArticleRecover Deduped VDR 2.0.1 NFS mounted VMDK with vCenter
Hello, Currently running vSphere 5.0 with HA (2 host servers) and VDR 2.0.1 (1 VDR appliance per host) with 2 backup servers (primary, secondary). Each VDR appliance has 2 virtual disks, 1 for the VDR...
View ArticleBackup Solutions ESXi 5 Free
I'll say sorry up front if this topic has been talked about to death but i need/want to ask for any best practices and include my current setup I will preface to say i work in a public library and we...
View ArticleHelp with a backup plan
Hello, I am trying to build a backup plan for a server. We are planning on running 4 VMs using vSphere 5 Essentials. What I want to be able to do is perform hourly incremental backups of the entire VM...
View ArticleVMware Data Protection
Is it possible with vDP to restore a virtual machine to an other datastore than the original datastore? So i can use the virtual machine within a testing environment?Arjan
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