VDP Upgrade - stalls at 45% - Installation of the package stalled
Hi,i just tried the upgrade from VDP 5.5 to 5.6 and it stopped with this error message: Installation of the package stalledThe installation stalled due to an error. Please use your snapshot to rollback...
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Question about restoring using GhettoVCB
I have used ghettoVCB to restore VMs before with no issue for a VM that contains only 1 hard disk. Maybe I'm over thinking this but how do you perform a restore with 2 hard disks(C drive and D drive)....
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Veeam B&R 8 configuration
Hi I setup my veeam infrastructure with a Veeam Backup manager (virtual) and Veeam Proxy (Physical). The VM backup manager is on the network segment than vcenter. But the proxy and the repository Is...
View ArticleEdit the vSphere Data Protection summary Report
Is it possible to edit the vSphere Data Protection summary Report, which I receive every day as an email message? I can see at the top of this report the number of successfully and failed backups.But...
View ArticleObtaining Daily Change Rate Information for VMs
Hi, Does anyone know a way of getting daily change rates info for VMs? I know you can obtain the information via Veeam One. VM Change Rate History: Veeam ONE Dashboards and ReportsHowever the TOP N...
View ArticleInbox Repair tool fails
Inbox Repair tool fails to repair corrupt Outlook. Any another method to repair corrupt Outlook?
View ArticlevDPA SQL backup job failing
I'm testing out the vDPA SQL feature and have it working with my vCenter DB server fine and have setup 2 other SQL servers to do some testing and they both fail on the backups. One was a Windows 7 VM...
View ArticleHow do I delete -ctk.vmdk files left behind by VMDR?
I had some issues and need to start over with VMware Disaster Recovery . At the moment I don't have a VMDR appliance but some of my VMs have -ctk.vmdk files. How do I get rid of them? I found this...
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VDP 5.8 Jobs Fail with "VDI: Failed to create snapshot." even though one is...
Hey All, Experiencing an issue where my jobs for VMs running on local disk are failing due to what appears to be a timeout on the take snapshot action. So at first I thought it was a timing issue, so...
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Can I add SDHC card to nested ESXi host and simulate as SSD?
I have nested three hosts (ESXi 5.5.0, release build 2068190) onto VMWare Workstation 10.0.4, each host assigned 2 vCPU and 6 GB memory, then I installed small VMs (Win XP, Ubuntu 8 and Small...
View ArticleVSA CommVault SIMPANA 10 SP9 VSA - Unable to read the disk for virtual machine
Hallo VMware Community, we are running VSA Backup of CommVault SIMPANA. We are using a VSA Proxy. To the Proxy the VMFS-5 LUNs are mapped read-only so that we can use SAN as transport mode for the VMs...
View ArticleBackup Software for ESXi Free Version?
Anyone have a suggestion for free backup software for esxi free version that has a WEB interface and will automatically backup VMs on a schedule? Thanks
View ArticleBackup problem after upgrade to 5.8
After upgrading to 5.8, some of the backups aren't completely fulfilled. I got the following message within the log A backup/restore/verification activity did not complete within the alloted time and...
View ArticleIs VDP considered a replacement for VCB?
My org recently upgraded to vSphere 5.5 from 4.1. Prior to the upgrade we were using VCB to do a weekly dump of all VMs to disk storage as sort of an "ace in the hole" backup mechanism. We already...
View ArticleCannot Power ON VDP 5.8
I use VDP 5.8 on Host 5.5 have vcenter tomorrow i login to vcenter and see the name of VDP error follow image. Please advise
View ArticleData Recovery
I hope I am posting in the right place. Having issues with VMWare Data Recovery. Receving a message in VCenter "The Data Recovery Service Did Not Start Up" I have tried stopping and starting the...
View ArticleData protection used for two vCenters
Hello, I'm trying to configure a Data Protection on my VMWare environment. I had three vCenters, LAB, PROD1 and PROD2. My intention is configure the Data Protection to backup data from two or more...
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vSphere Data Protection Restore Client not displaying any files
Hello, I am trying to work with VDP but I am having an issue with my files not displaying after I mount my backup. I am getting no error message at any point, just my mounted backup with no file and...
View ArticleVDP 5.8 - Backup Exchange DB - integrity check everytime
Hello.We have:vcenter 5.5VDP 5.8Exchange Server 2010 SP3 without Database Availabilty Groups We use VDP for full/increment for backup some Mailbox DBs about 700...
View ArticleVDP DR Plan
Currently we are using ESXi 5.5 in Primary Site also is DR Site, for vm backup we are planning to deploy VDP on both the sites.Both sites we are using separate vCenter Servers. In regards, of that we...
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