Will VDPa reliably backup vCenter 5.5 Appliance (vCSA)?
Now that the vCSA in 5.5 can support up to 100 hosts using the embedded DB I am interested in using the appliance going forward. I see that vDPa 5.5 now supports to Direct-to-Host emergency restores...
View ArticleVDP creating multiple user sessions
Greetings, I noticed that the VDP appliance creates multiple user sessions per appliance.I've been seeing this on the GUI client under Sessions.Is this normal behavior?I note at least 5 Active...
View ArticleIs VDP Really That Bad?
We currently utilize EMC Avamar for our backup and restore solution at the client level. Pushing out EMC Client and Agents for all clients. The current EMC Appliance isn't aware of our VM Solution?...
View ArticleAny changes to file level restore in 5.5
Hi I've been struggling with file level restore since we started using vdp. I'm not able to login to the flr client on the vm.See this earlier thread:...
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VDP: Failed to attach disk
Hi everyone, I've tried everything I could for the past 2 days and I am still geting this... I have reinstalled it 4 times so far and still same thing!I CAN ping from within VDP shell the esxi hosts,...
View ArticleBackup Tasks
Guys, i have 2 storeges in my production environment. EVA4400 and EVA6400. When i start the backup, they go to the limit of stress.. well, i know it's because the routine of vdp to make backup of 8 VM...
View ArticleBacking up VM's under ESXi 5.1
As we move to using ESXi 5.1 vms "live" we needs to do back ups Can I simply use the data store browser to copy the folders to another box and then copy these on to back up hard drive or tape?
View ArticleEBRA and EBRA Porxy Installation with vCenter 5.5 and NetWorker 8.1
Hi, I have several questions below: 1) Can EBRA and EBRA Proxy OVA be installed with vCenter 5.5 without DNS? If the /etc/hosts files in all the conerned hosts are fully configured should it work? or...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 e VDP 5.5.1: Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory
When I try to registration a new VDP 5.5 on vCenter 5.5 I have the error: Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory. For user, I have used "administrator@vsphere.local" or...
View ArticleReinstalling VDP fails with Invalid configuration for device '3'
Ok, we had VDP running for a while, but something happened and it screwed up, and attempting rollbacks was a complete and utter failure. So figured shouldn't be too hard to uninstall it and then start...
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...
View ArticleVDR 2.0.2 for vCenter 5.0 - FLR credentials issue
Hi We're still on vCenter 5.0 I am playing with the VDR appliance, version 2.0.2. Backups and restores all seem OK, I can run the FLR client on a windows VM and browse restore points, no issue....
View ArticleVDP Error at vCenter Registration
Hi,I am unable to register VDP to vCenter, i am getting the following error "Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory." or sometimes i am getting "The connection test did not complete...
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Virtual Data Recovery Appliance configured at 4vcpu 8GB and still runs at...
Hi folks -- I'm tired of some users constantly using 'snapshots' as a backup mechanism, and it's tedious to manually clone or backup vmdk's for them, so I thought I'd give VMWare's "Virtual Data...
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VDP reliability and job durations
Hi there, whilst the backup utilities in the 3.x series and early 4.x series always used to run fine for us it's nothing but down right misery since then. VDP 5.0.x used to last on average for about 2...
View ArticleRestarting VDP hangs at starting VDP appliance systems.
estimnated time to complete: 10 minutes. But it has been much longer than 10 minutes. Powered off and powered on. Didn't help
View ArticleAny way to recover individual files from deleted and unrecoverable vmdk
Long story short.... a running VM got deleted and overwritten on a NAS formatted with EXT4. The VMDK was well over 200GB in size and only 5GB got written back to the volume before it was realized and...
View ArticleVDP 5.5 - Attach VDP Storage
Hello, I would like to deploy OVA with VDP 5.5 and attach my custom sized vmdk disk.But no matter how I create the disk and when try to attach it to VDP I get the warning message:"VDP: Failed initial...
View ArticleStuck on 5.0 because I don't want VDP...5.5 version any better?
Running a 5.0 environment with VDR 2.0.1 and while it is not great, for the most part it works. After reading so many horror stories and limitations with VDP I have been avoiding 5.1 updates but with...
View ArticleEsxi 5.0 Host support for FC connected Tape Drives in virtual machine running...
Dear Experts, We recently bought C0H19A: HP StoreEver 1/8 G2 LTO-6 Ultrium 6250 FC TapeAutoloader. The purpose is to backup data from virtual machines, I mean selected data in virtual machines, like...
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