vDP - Advanced Login for Data Protection Restore Client
Anybody else having trouble with this? The basic logon works fine, but when I try to use the advanced logon (and yes, the user does have vCenter admin rights, as specified in the admin guide, page 42...
View ArticleAnyone have issues with VDP using Win vCenter and BIND DNS?
So here’s the deal, I have troubleshot this issue with VMWare and they currently have passed the issue up to the Dev team. We have a VDP VM that is failing the IP/DNS resolution portion of the...
View ArticleVDR 2.0.1, /dev/sdb/ - unmounted physical disc, destinations
Hi All, I have a problem with my VDR 2.0.1, last backup was failure due to power problems and after that on VDR destinations where i had normally one network destination, stay another one, unmounted...
View ArticleIncorrect status info from VDP
I installed VDP about a week ago. Ive been testing it and am seeing some odd results.On the Backup tab, it shows "Success count" = 1 and "Failure count" =0If I click on each machine on the restore tab,...
View ArticleTo CBT or Not
We are upgrading our vSphere environment to 5.1 and are moving away from NetApp volume based backups to Hitachi NetBackup based backups. Our vendor is asking us to enable VMware CBT and I wanted get...
View ArticleVery Simple Config
I have one ESXi 5.1 server with one VM. I just need a simple and free way to back it up. I have tried vBackup but since I am running the free ESX version it isnt supported (and I have tried the...
View ArticleHow to properly remove VDP ?
Hi, how can I completly and properly remove VDP appliance ? Destrying the virtual machine doesn't change nothing, vpd still apear in the web client. Thank for your help Theju
View ArticleVDP backup time out connection
Hi all,I want to know il it's possible to increase the time out connection because some time my backup job failed with this error"Connection timed out"Detail: connect failed in tcp_connect() and this...
View ArticleVDP vs VDR
Hi everybody, i couldnt help myself starting this conversation. i was very suprised for VDR being shutdown.i knew VDR would be updated, but was not expectng so soon, since the latest 2.01 was released...
View ArticleAlternative to VDP or what’s good for backup?
Does anyone have any recommendations for a backup alternative to VDP? I tried deploying the VDP appliance on our HA cluster and even VMWare doesn’t know what’s wrong. DNS is resolving on the VDP, the...
View ArticleSnapshot hanging
Hi all, i have created one job in VDP (8 vm), it starts as scheduled but the day after this is the situation:- all vm have snapshot attached- no one ended successfully- i have to shutdown vdp, remove...
View ArticleHP RDX - testing restore but unable to see RDX drive
We have a Proliant server with an internal (USB-connected) RDX backup drive.I am using Vsphere ESXi 5.1 (free version).The main VM is running Windows Server Essentials 2012 and I have installed the HP...
View Articlepre-freeze and post-thaw scripts help
Hi I've got an environment where I want to use Veeam as the backup tool but I'm having issues with a non VSS aware application and pre-freeze scripts.Essentially, I need to freeze an old Oracle...
View Articlesnapshot on Oracle and SQL servers
All, I am a big fan of snapshots for application servers, file servers, etc. I wanted some input on the behavior of taking snapshots of Oracle and SQL severs. Is it supported? I am no DBA, but it seems...
View ArticleHow to check vcb compatibility???
Dear team how to check vcb 1.5 Update 2 is compatible with win2k8 ??? regardsMr VMware
View ArticleVDP and SRM - Do they Conflict?
Dear All, I'm trialling VDP in my Dev environment and it seems to be a really good alternative to our existing system (a very elderly copy of vRanger). We also use SRM in our Production environment...
View ArticleVDP Scheduler won't start
hi guys suddenly my Backup Scheduler won't start (I can see that in status VDP configure tab). It was working fine.I manually start it. No go.I used command: dpnctl stop mcs - dpnctl start mcs. Same...
View ArticleVDP not usable after reboot
Hi to everyoneI need some help to regain access to my VDP appliance.Environment:vCenter server 5.1 listening to port 444ESXi hosts 5.0 build 623860VDP appliance 5.1.1 After first installation the...
View ArticleVMware VADP do I have to get Ent or Above
Gents, Hi we have planning to upgrade our backup to EMC networker v8, & now in process to get vSphere Standard 5.1 do we need to reconsider of get vSphere Enterprise or Enterprise plus for VADP...
View ArticleVDP Proxy errors
Has anyone encountered this error before:vdp: Failed to initiate a backup or restore for a virtual machine because no proxy was found to service the virtual machine A new update to vdp came out last...
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