Selecting a backup solution
hi, hope you can advice me selecting a backup solution, We need to buy Essentials Kit, these do not include data protection so we will need to search for a alternative to backups VMs (powered on). i...
View ArticleJoin a Linked Mode Group After Installation vCetner 6
Hi, Can I joined two vCSA 6 in linked mode after vCenter been installed, the use case is vMotion cross vCenter
View ArticleRecovery from a Lost (non-recoverable) delta vmdk file
I am looking for help with trying to restore/receover a VM with a corrupt (not recoverable) delta.vmdk file, the file was partially written over with other data. No backups exist (a mistake during the...
View ArticleMount s.v00 file
I have an ESXi 5.5 host stuck with all my hardware in passthrough mode, so it cannot find the datastore. The ESXi OS boots up and in the ESXi GUI client from my Windows machine, I can disable...
View ArticleVDP 6.1 Backup Error & vSphere 5.5
Hi, We received few scheduled backup errors for jobs set up for 'individual disks backup' (x1 hard disk) with the 'fall back to the non-quiesced backup if quiescence fails' option checked.Error: "VDP:...
View ArticleCrash Consistent and application consistent backup for the same job
I'm using VDP 6.1 in ESXi 6 environment cluster to backup virtual machines and I noted the same Windows guest OS has different kind of backup: Crash Consistent or application consistent backup E.g. the...
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 ArticleVDP EOA
VMWare announced the End of Availability (EOA) of VMware Data Protection (2149614).This is quite disappointing, as many customers might have opted for using VDP after the announcement that VMware...
View ArticleMicrosoft DPM - what minimal ESX license needed
Hi all, I'm not able to find the minimal ESX license needed for MS DPM compatibilty.What I found so far: - DPM uses VADP API which I identified as vSphere vStorage API.- According to datasheet, the...
View Articleupgrade VDP 6.1.2 to 6.1.4 with vCenter 5.5U3e : backup failed
Hello, I recently upgraded my VDP 6.1.2 to VDP 6.1.4. I can't backup my VMs any more. Each time, I launch a backup job, it stops immediately and I receive the following error : Error: An attempt was...
View ArticleVDP 6.1 Backup Failures
Hi, I've recently inherited a vCenter environment where a small number of the VMs are being backed up using VDP 6.1. The backups are currently failing and I'm not really getting anywhere with...
View ArticleVMDK recovery from Delta file
Long story short - a folder was deleted from the datastore which contained the flat and descriptor file for one drive on a server containing very important data. This was also the time when we found...
View ArticleMerge/Recover data from delta.vmdk
Hi, I cancelled in the middle of snapshot deleting process all the snapshot configuration file deleted. I able up the vm but the data's are available before the snapshot date. In datastore i can see...
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E10007 Miscellaneous Error Backing Up VM
I have recently setup a small new virtual environment. One of the key features is a vDP backup appliance running on a host at physically separate location, with backups being performed over the...
View ArticleHow to Export VMs list from Backup Jobs created on VDP appliance
Hi, Could someone please help me as I want to export list of VMs which are configured in backup and Backup job is created on VDP appliance.
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"Cannot complete operation due to concurrent modification by another...
I've just updated VDP to 5.1.10.32 following Administration Guide. I removed snapshot after update but I'm not able to set disks to "Independent - Persistent“ mode again. I've got "File...
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Vsphere data protection backup VMs powering off??
Hi,I'm new to Vsphere data protection and wonder if someone could help answer my questionWhen taking a backup using the vsphere data protection the VM is power off during the process.is their a way to...
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Corrupted Files after snapshot deletion - recovery
I was attempting to increase disk size on the primary disk of a VM. I followed instructions to delete all snapshots. After I noticed that the disk type went from Thin provisioned to Thick provisioned....
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Restore config from 5.1 to 6.5
Tried to upgrade a standalone ESXi 5.1 to 6.5U1 (both local and external datastores) First of all... I backuped everything... and made even sure I got a staged copy offline. Booting off from the ISO,...
View ArticleVDP no connection
Few days ago I was not able to connect to VDP machine by vSphere Web client so I will reboot VDP, can you suggest me what log I can check to understand what happened?
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