VDPA (vSphere Data Protection Advanced) maximum throughput, and maximum...
I am preparing a design for a large virtual environment which has more than 2500 VMs. I am planning to provision VDPA for VM backup of non-production environment of Windows and Linux VMs. Query #1: As...
View ArticleVDP management
Hi,Is it possible to manage multiple VPD data backup/restores from a single window ?Please inform, if there are any queries ? Thaks & Regards,Sanjee Shrivastava
View ArticleVDP (vCenter Data Protection) throughput and data management.
1) Are there any limitations on the maximum FC and Ethernet through-put supported by VDP advanced version ? 2) Maximum data size capability of 8TB by VDPA is combined of all the 10 VDP appliances...
View ArticleVDP Advanced centralized management.
Guys,Need help on below queries regarding VDPA (vCenter Data Protection Advanced). I'm not a expert in VDP 1. Is there any tool to centrally manage multiple instance of VDPA configured in a single...
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection - Seeding Replications - what's the best way?
So here we have the issue, previously I have used Veeam heavily to backup and replicate data into a central data centre. This worked well and allowed us to go ahead and seed the data by placing a...
View ArticleESXi 5.5 Host backup
Hi vSphere community, Curious what people are doing to backup up physical ESXi servers? We have IBM TSM, but I'm not sure it can backup an ESX Host. Strictly looking at ESX host backups at the moment...
View ArticleVDP Stuck at 10%
I am trying to configure vSphere Data Protection 5.5.6.56. When I go throught the configuration and the system reboots it says in Tasks within vCenter(5.1) "VDP: Configure Appliance" and it stays at...
View ArticlevSphere SAN Backup
Hi all! Im new to vSphere 5.5. I m using 2 ESXi Hosts with vSphere Essentials Plus and a HP P2000 SAS SAN. To the SAN i have connected 2 ESXi Hosts and a Backup-Server with a Tape Library.My idea is,...
View ArticleNeed some ideas for recovery
Hi folks: I'm helping a small business with their VMWARE environment. THey have: * A single ESXi 5.5 HOST (VMWARE ESSENTIALS). It's a DELL PowerEdge R720, 32gb with DAS (about 2TB)* Three VMS. All...
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Way to backup linux vm single directory
Hello Is there a way to backup just a single directory like /var/www in Linux virtual machine on licensed ESXi 4.1 . I was trying to find answer on google but without any effect Best regardsWojtek
View ArticleUsing Avamar backup for vphsere 5.1, need to give proper roles for backup...
Can anyone point me to in the right direction for setting up a role for backup operators in vphsere 5.1. We are using avamar as our backup product. Right now the operators need vmware admins to do...
View ArticleVeeam, snapshots, consolidation etc...
I am helping a buddy out and running into roadblocks for his problem.I'm not a Veeam guy and stay away from the snapshots when I can so with that.... I am seeing a ton of ghost? missing in action...
View ArticleVpshere Data Protection Vcenter Login fails
Hello @ all, i have a login problem with my Vmware Data Protection. I don´t can logon with the creditals from the vcenter server. Only the access to the recovery points from the local user works, but...
View ArticleCan VDP take backup of remote site VMs ?
Can VDP take backup of remote site VMs ?I have a vCenter server, on which I have added a host of remote location (about 700 miles away). Is it possible to backup this VM using VDP, which is installed...
View ArticleWhat are the requirements to restore a VDP backed up VM at remote site ?
If I take backup of VM using VDP, and replicating VDP data base to remote site (site B).Is it possible to restore VM at remote at remote site on a different vCenter Server ? What would be the...
View ArticleVDP support for backup of 8VMs simultaneously and can manage 8 TB of data,
As per VMware documentation for VDP5.5, only 8 VMs can be backed up simultaneously. However nowhere it mentioned, whether this limit is per VDP appliance or combined of all the VDP appliances on a...
View ArticleIs it possible to take backup of VDP data base
Is it possible to take backup of VDP data base on disk or tape ? Purpose is to save this database to a remote site, so that If VDP database gets corruput, VMs backed up by VDP can be restored....
View ArticleIs there a workaround to allow VDP to use NFS windows shares? VDP...
VDP installation has been failing me ever since. Today, Techsupport pointed out that Windows NFS shares are not supported for storing the VDP virtual drives. Is there a work around for this? My only...
View ArticleVDP keep perform full backup of some VMs
Hi, I am using VDP5.5.6 version. I find that the VDP always perform full backup on some of the VMs especial VMs with large disk size. I tried to backup the VM again just after it completed but the task...
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XXXcom.vmware.vdp2.server.error.10056.formatonvmfoundXXX VDP 5.5
hi guys I have this VDP that backups only 8 VMs, and I've been having a problem with one of them - always the same VM (vmware tools up to date, OS W2008 R2) I get this error message like every 3 days,...
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