Poll: Observed vDP deduplication ratios
Hi, would appreciate if people would share the vDP deduplication ratios from their enviornments. I'm trying to come up with a solid average ratio I could use in our future production backup storage...
View ArticleVDP backups wont start
Hello ,We are using VDP version 5.5.6.56 for our vblock environment to backup the VMs. I am facing one issue where after adding a VM into a backup job , the backups just wont trigger. The scheduled...
View ArticleVirtual Data Protection old task entries
Hi all, We had a problem with a Backup job and we had to cancel the job. But for some reason there are entries in the recent task list which are not removed and stay in the list. Backup/Restore...
View ArticleVirtual machine consolidation failed - Backup Exec 2012
Hello, I am running backup exec 2012 sp4 and using vray to backup my wm's running on ESXi 5.5 update 2. Recently, on my exchange server (just the mailbox db disk), it has been failing to...
View ArticleVDP 6.0 "Select Destination" in FLR is blank
Hi all, Running Vsphere 5.5 U2, and VDP 6.0. I am using a Server 2012 R2 VM to attempt a FLR (file level restore) and I get all the way to the point where I select a destination to restore the file to....
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.8 - VM's backup fails
Hi, I have a problem while performing backup of vm's.Problem Description:When checking the VDP Backup we noticed that some VM are not backed up anymore.From all VM's only VM04 and VM48 did fail.When...
View ArticleMonitoring of VDP 6.0 backups
Hi, I use VDP 6 to back up 30+ VMs. I have a full vCloud Suite deployed that includes vRops. What I would like to accomplish is to get the info about failed backups in vRops. I wasn't able to find a...
View ArticleAn unexpected connection error occured
Hi Today I suddenly I lost contact with one of my vdp appliances. I connected to it successfully this morning but later in the day I was unable. Can't see that anything has been altered that could...
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second NIC config on VDP appliance?
Hi,can someone tell me how to add and enale a second nic on VDP appliance?!I have added a network deviceI have a file added on /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ ---> ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1and on...
View ArticleRestore VM using VDP 5.8.0.467 doesn't display progress
Hello fellow VDP users, When I restore a VM using VDP 5.8.0.467 I no longer see a progress bar (in C# or web client). The VM is restoring however as I can power it up once the "Migrate..." option is...
View ArticleVDP over NFS datastore and network monitoring
Finally, I decided to start my own thread about this.Here is the post I added to an other one: Hi, I installed VDP for the first time yesterday at 1:00pm. The appliance is sitting on a host in a...
View ArticleHelp, going crazy -- where is the VDP plugin?!?
Hey everyone, I have been combing the Internet trying so many things.. many of them coming from this very forum. I've had no luck, so I come to you all for ideas! I am running the vCenter Server...
View ArticleNative VMware features for BCDR, Auto/Orchestrated Failover, Backups
As we are looking for a BCDR solution, it turns out it will cost us a bundle, e.g. Unitrends, Datto, Veem etc.Now that VMware 6 is out, is there any native VMware capabilities that I can leverage to do...
View ArticleVDP Error
When I attempt to run a backup job I receive the following error: A backup cannot be performed while the VDP Appliance is in the following state: Admin. Any help would be appreciated
View ArticleRecovery from a total failure
I am evaluating vSphere 6 and in testing backup I can't figure out how you would restore to VMDK that VDP made when I no longer have vsphere client or or vSphere data protection running. Let me explain...
View ArticleVDP and its first sight limitations
We are users of EMC Networker, and have been for years. With ESXi, until now, we use the client based backup approach (what EMC calls "Guest based"). Looking at the new features of recent versions of...
View ArticleAutomating VDPA backups?
I know that the VDP documentation states that the only way to manage the backups is to use the web client plugin, but is there really no way to automate backups? For example by using API calls or...
View ArticleVDP stop working after domain administrator password change.
We recently changed domain administrator password and stop the domain administrator permission to the vCentre. Looks like now the VDP machine stop working.The symptoms are: cannot access VDP via web,...
View ArticleBackup job failing - Error 3 (One of the parameters was invalid)
Hello,as stated above my backup job is failing and I don't know why. From the vSphere Web Client I get the following message on the task console: VDP server execution error code: 10055 And from the...
View ArticleRecover deleted files from datastore (iscsi from FreeNAS)
Hello, I've got a problem. I'd connected iscsi target from FreeNAS as datastore to vmware host (ESXi 5.0.0) and used 100GB (30% of all capaticy) for D drive (data) in windows server virtual machine....
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