VDP VCenter Registration test failure
Hi,We have deployed a 0.5 TB VDP appliance but when going through the initial setup we get the following error: Specified user either is not a dedicated VDP user or does not have sufficient vCenter...
View ArticleNetbackup Master/Media server on a Linux client with tape
It appears that a Netbackup Master server can run on a Linux client. I'm curious if anyone is doing this. I'm also wondering if you have an attached tape library for backup. So far in the...
View ArticleVmware Data Protection - Backup done but email notification shows failed
Hi, I'm using VDP to backup a Vcenter Linux Appliance amongst other VM, on a Vsphere 5.5 infrastructure.Everything was just fine until the day the email notification indicated that de backup of my...
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VDP 5.5 failed to retrieve the storage information on the appliance
hi guys All of a sudden VDP stopped working, when I try to access VDP from Web Client I get a popup saying:"The VDP Appliance is not responding. Please try your request again.Would you like to be...
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection Management and Reporting
I like vSphere Data Protection. It does what it's supposed to do and it's been reliable when I need it. Thank You VMware - BUT THE REPORTING\MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES NEED AN UPDATE!!! COME ON Biggest...
View Articleesxi raid disaster - how to recover my vm's?
Hello I currently have the following issue:We have a IBM x3650 server with two raid 5 systems. The esxi host is installed on the first raid which currently failed (marked as offline). Now that I can't...
View ArticleVDP Advanced 5.5 Network Design assistance.
I've been looking for documentation on the best setup for my VDP Advanced backup server. I'm not having too much luck and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I'm probably way...
View ArticleCBT and migration of backup solution
Hi, I have a question regarding cbt and backup.Take the following example : I backup my VMs with a backup solution using cbt (for example with Netbackup). I change my backup solution to backup my VMs...
View ArticleBackup solution for (free) ESXi
Is there any backup solution (freeware, if possible) for VMware ESXi free version?Regardsmarius
View ArticleHow to freeing up space in VDP with the capacity health check limit reached?
Used Capacity on one of our VDP reached 96.46% and Backup Scheduler was stopped. I'm able to start Backup Scheduler. But although I deleted many backups the used capacity is still the same. Is any way...
View ArticleHow do you find out the size of backups in VDP
Hi guys, I am new with VDP and was wondering if someone can tell me how I can find out the size of a my backup. What I am trying to do is compare the backups of two consecutive days and see how much of...
View ArticleWhere VDPA backup file located and how big?
As subject. Let set if anyone got some idea. I tried to backup something like 200G data, but just found the VDP appliance size increased just around 10G. Is it stored somewhere else? Many thanks for...
View ArticleSome question about snapshot and apis.
Hi all, I have some questions about taking snapshot on VMWare.I have read some books, and still don't know the relation between VIX APIs, vSphere APIs and vStorage APIs?Another question is what is the...
View ArticleVDP Appliance configuration - registering with vCenter fails. Possible to...
Hi, I want to deploy a VDP Appliance and connect it to a remote vCenter, that is, not the one on which the appliance is deployed. Say I have deployed the ova template in vCenter1, but during the...
View ArticleBackup vApp metadata
Is there any way in which i can backup a vApp's meta data along with the VMs under the vApp. The purpose is to recover the vApp properties( start order and IP settings) along with the recovery of the...
View ArticlePowered off VMs on esxi
hello Is it correct,powered off VMs also make performance issues on hosts.because host has to keep CPU and memory reservations to power up the VM ... is it correct . if it is correct any link. second...
View ArticleVDP vCenter change - Failed to initiate a backup - datastore not accessible
Hi,i needed to deploy my vCenter from scratch. Now i'm not able to get the VDP Backups running with this new vCenter installation. When i start a backup, it immediately returns with this error...
View Articlesnapshot restoration without I/O quiescing
Hi All, Setup: vCenter 5.0 and VSC plugin 4.2 installed; 4 ESXi Hosts; 16 VMs We have configured SMVI snapshot backup without IO quiescing. Will there be any issue while restoring the snapshot of VM...
View ArticleSTOP auto refresh in tasks screen
I've recently installed my first VDP appliance (5.5.6) on vCenter 5.5U1 and set up a backup job for about 35 virtual servers. When I run the job several tasks are created and viewable under the Tasks...
View ArticleInstant Recover VM to Production via Clone using vSphere
I am running Veeam Backup and Replication and our Production VM went down and currently running Instant Recovery VM directly off NAS. My Datastore is has only 1.34TB left and the VM I need to bring...
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