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remvoing orphaned disk and veeam backup
We have veeam for backup software for backing up VM's. We are working with veeam support on a separate issue and they told us to look for orphaned snapshots. We didn't have any but we had a few...
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Recover deleted CTK.vmdk file
I have deleted CTK.VMDK files and now unable to attached hard disk to VM. Screenshot attached..
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VDP SNAPSHOTS with forever retention
Hi, I am stuck with a weird problem of VDP configuration. My previous VMAdmin has configured VDP with forever retention policy and the appliance contains very old snapshots of 2-3 years back. I want to...
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Copying vm from a non bootable host
Is it possible to copy a vm to a usb drive from a non bootable esxi 5.0 host? I have a host that will not boot, I am getting a pink screen stating no place to dump data on disk. I can not get the exsi...
View ArticleSRM enterprise advanced bundle?
Hi All, Does Vmware has a product: Advanced Bundle (vCenter Server, vSphere Ent +, vRealize Suite Advanced and NSX DC Advanced) Site Recovery Manager Enterprise
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Expiration Date of Old Backups
Hi, Can i edit expiration date of old backups taken through VDP please? Currently old backup have no expiration date as the retention policy was forever.Please guide how to release the space on data...
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How to reclaim space in VDP
Hi, I am just worried about the space occupied by VDP Appliance backups at it has crossed 70%. The datastore in VCenter is also 80% filled. Now when I try to delete the old backups , the VDP appliance...
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vCenter Appliance with DRS with only two hosts?
Hi there,I read all the docs I was able to find and wasn't able to find a solution to the following scenario: 1) We have two data centers in different cities. Each data center consists of only one ESXi...
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VDP backup error, failed to download VM metadata, request help!!! ...
VDP configuration and installation are normal, but backup error, backup can not continue, although you see Fail to download VM metadata, try later, but I don't know what the problem is....
View ArticleBackup and restore option for virtual envronment
Hi,We are running 2 ESXI host having 4 VM each.Running file server,database server etc.Data is on shared storage HP EVA 6000. We are looking for some backup and disaster reecovery solution.Not...
View ArticleOpinions on Symantec V-Ray vs Veeam
We are looking at both of the products in the subject line for our DR solution. I can read all the marketing material till I'm blue in the face, however I wanted to here from people who are using them...
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VMDK move aborted by power loss - flat file and vmdk lost - large delta files...
Hello forum, i had bad luck trying to move a VM on an old ESXi 5.5 to a NFS Storage to consolidate the VMs to another server. While i was working on the cables i accidently powered off the VM host. The...
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Doubt - Backing up VMs
Hello everyone! I am looking for backup solutions for my company.Right now i'm using a small Synology NAS with 4TB - that we already have - to test the Active Backup for Business from them.The problem...
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Datastore missing after ESXi upgrade to 6.7.0
Hi everyone, I have a situation where after upgrading ESXi from 6.0.0 to 6.7.0 I have lost one out of three of my datastores. The disk with the datastore on it appears in the ESXi interface as VMFS and...
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Big number of hfscheck in VDP Integrity Check
Hello, VDP core system is sometimes down and I usually reboot the virtual appliance of VDP (with OS shutdown) because the server vendor reccomended us so at the first case.# Because of the error...
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vSphere Data Protection Boot Disk Full
Hey I get the error that boot disk is 95% full. I use Version 6.1.4.30 But if I check it, I got: admin@vdpprod:~/>: df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/sda2 32G 6.0G...
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VDP Certificates expired vulnerability scan results port 7778,7779,7781
I have results from my security team indicating that ports 7778,7779,7781 are vulnerable because the cert expired in January of 2018. I havent found any good guidance that resolves this issue. Any...
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Recover vCenter Database Instance from VDP -- VCenter is Down
Customer environment having VDP , and they took Database Instance backup . Now due to some ongoing issue they need to restore DB instance backup but they unable to see DB instance backup in emergency...
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CBT for VMs running on NFS
Hey now! With HCI coming at everyone now over the past few years, we are finally ready to adopt and have selected a solution. However, along with this transition to HCI comes a transition from...
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vmdk recover
Hello,I accidentally deleted a vm from the datastore and unfortunately I don't have a backup. Already tried photorec but with no luck. I've found some discussions here from a user, Continuum, that has...
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