vDP 5.8 Integrity Check Time
Is it possible to force the integrity check to a certain time, we've set the the maintenance window but integrity check always occurs 15:00-16:00, which is outside of the mantenance window. It seems...
View ArticleAutomation of "Pair site" for SRM
Hi! I'm looking how could be automated "Site pair" in Site Recovery -> Sites -> site_address in "Summary" tab (as shown on the picture): Any kind of scripting is acceptable (PowerCLI, esxcli,...
View ArticleVDP 6.1 - Reduce storage
I currently have a VDP 6.1 appliance with 12TB of stoage capacity. I'm using less than 1TB (it has been set up for a year). Is there a way to reduce the capacity? Ideally, I would like to reduce it to...
View ArticleVDP suddenly stopped to schedule backups
Hi,I installed VDP appliance (5.1.1). Registered to the vcenter, setup several backup jobs. The appliance worked for 2 months quite reliably, but suddenly something happened and I cannot start any...
View Articlevsphere Data Protection 6.0 unable to connect to the request VDP appliance
Hello, After I doployed adn configured vsphere Data Protection 6.0 unable to connect to the request VDP applianceIt has error "Unable to connect to the request VDP Appliance"vCenter version : 6.0ESXi...
View ArticleHow do I backup my Veeam server?
I have two VM hosts with four guests each. One of those eight guests is a Veeam server. I would think, ideally, that the Veeam server should live on a server of its own. Regardless, how do I backup...
View ArticleVDP: Failed to attach disk
I'm evaluating vDP and have got the following trouble. After I changed SSL certificate at vCenter server, vDP jobs are failing permanently. In the log I can see that vDP is trying to connect to the...
View ArticleVDP 6.1 check if CBT is being used
We're having a customer doing a backup of a VM with a couple of TB's.But looks like CBT is not being used, scanning the disks takes more than 24hours and we had to extend the backup...
View ArticleHow to prevent startup of a VM when while performing backup
Hi, Is there any way to prevent users in vSphere Client from booting up a VM while you're performing a back-up?
View ArticleMissing VDP Backup and Replication Jobs in VCenter web-client
I have a very weird issue. This morning I rebooted my two VDP appliances and since then all my Backup and Replication Job definitions are missing in the VCenter web-client GUI for both VDP appliances....
View ArticleVDP Resize Storage
Hello,i'm using the newest VPD appliance with 2 TB storage. Is it possible to resize (minimize) the storage? Thanks Dennis
View ArticleFailed to Backup VM - Failed to retrieve next FILE_PUT message
Hi All, I just got problem in my environment. Here it is: Before, the VM was backup normally during last 1 year. But, last week, the backup was failed. Here is failed notification: Processing SERVER-A...
View ArticleBackup VMs by host rather than cluster
Anyone knows if there's plans to allow VDP to backup VMs by host rather than by cluster? It's important that new VMs get added to backup schedule automatically and that's why we areusing by cluster...
View ArticleHow to backup Linked-clone VM
Hi everyone,We are trying to backup linked-clone VMs in our vSphere environment. I have tried google around but did not see a promising solution.If there is anyone that had experience in backing up...
View ArticleRestarting VDP hangs at starting VDP appliance systems.
estimnated time to complete: 10 minutes. But it has been much longer than 10 minutes. Powered off and powered on. Didn't help
View ArticleVDP Restart and hangs at /usr/local/vdr/configure/bin/checkforddrpreset.pl",...
I rebooted my VPD appliance 1 hr ago and it has sat at this line now for as long.. What can I do. THe schedules replication and backup have started and all are failing.
View ArticleVDP 6.1 Failed to Create SQL Server Backup Job, No Databases Showing up.
Hi, I just deployed VDP Appliance 6.1 into our ESXi 5.5 host. Everything's running smoothly (backup-restore VM Image, File Level Restore, Backup verification etc.), but there is one issue: when I want...
View ArticleVMware Data Protection support for Exchange 2016
I couldn't find a specific section for VDP so posting here. The latest VDP 6.1 admin guide doesn't list Exchange 2016, does anyone know the timeline for it to be updated?
View ArticleBackup SQL Server 2016 with vsphere Data Protection 6.1.3
Hello, I have a small lab where I am testing VDP 6.1.3. This appliance is backing up some VM successfully. I have installed SQL server agent in a server with Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016. I...
View ArticleVDP - selecting single disk restores whole VM
HI there, I'm fairly new to vDP, but my new employer has VDP 6.1. configured and it mostly seems to work fine. However we have an issue in trying to restore a single disk. Although we can step through...
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