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Datastore Recovery
Is it possible to recover deleted datastores? I made the mistake of attempting to copy datastores to different locations and deleted the original(s). The copies showed successful but they...
View ArticleVDP backup failed: Operation failed due to existing snapshot
Hi i have encountered a backup issue when i using VDP to backup few VMware machines. the Backup Job failed on a Vmware Machine the error message is Operation failed due to existing snapshoti have...
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Ideal file backup
Hey everyone, What's the safest way of backing up/storing the files? Say you have 3 ESXs running the VM's - one of the VMs is a file server, one of them Veeam backing up the VMs to NAS storage. The...
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Restore files delta.vmdk without flat and data loss (vmdk)
Good morning, I have a serious problem, Today I rejoined the company and I see that they have been working well, I do not want to go into details, the summary would be that a machine stopped due to...
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vsphere data protection services spontaneously stop
hello gentlemeni'm running vsphere data protection 6.1 on ESX 5.5 on a Cisco UCS B200 M3 server.it co-exists with about a dozen other low demand virtual machine workloads.The vSphere Data Protection...
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How do I delete -ctk.vmdk files left behind by VMDR?
I had some issues and need to start over with VMware Disaster Recovery . At the moment I don't have a VMDR appliance but some of my VMs have -ctk.vmdk files. How do I get rid of them? I found this...
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BackupExec 2010 Thin VMDK but Thick Backup
Hi, I'm trying BackupExec 2010 R2 AVVI to backup some virtual machines on a NetApp NFS datastore. All machines have thin provisioned disks. I'm using NDBSSL transport mode.Every time I do a backup of a...
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How to vMotion during tape backup
I need to figure out a solution for a VMs that are connected to a tape backup. Currently the solution uses a physical server with a scsi connection another physical server uses a usb connection to a...
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Program froze when updating, not sure how to fix, screen shot of error in post.
So, I was updating my windows in VMware Fusion and it froze and I had to reboot the computer. When I rebooted the computer and opened up windows on my Mac again, a message popped up and I don't know...
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Help - VM Crashed and not sure if recoverable.
Hello, We are using VMWARE ESXi and have a VM that just crashed. If you look at the attached screenshot of our VMWARE setup, you'll notice I have opened up DATASTORE1. Inside the SQL VM you will see...
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Esxi free version backup solution (4 VMs)
Hi folks, I've been reading up on a lot of VM backup solution options...including this one, but still not able to make a decision for a backup solution that will allow me to backup the entire VM...
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Best way to backup ?
Hi, So here's the setup : 1 x vcenter2 x ESXi Very small setup. Not a lot of VM (it's a lab). Now we need to backup VM from time to time but the boss doesn't want to pay. So I looking for a tool that :...
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vSphere Data Protection 6.1.11 - ERROR 2 stripes OFFLINE_MEDIA_ERROR
Please advice me. I have Integriyr status Out of date. But I don't run manual Integriry check and KB 2067701 (VMware Knowledge Base ).I think, that my problem in "stripes...
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Loop at vsphere plug-in login VDR 2.0.4
Hi guys. I'm trying to login to VDR 2.0.4 using the vSphere Client and the appliance keeps asking the vCenter credentials. For some reason none of the passwords works. I've tried using the local...
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Cannot consolidate disk
Hi, I'm on ESXi 6.0.I cannot consolidate disk on a VM. Error message is : Unable to create new file /vmfs/volumes/5d07c508-4d7f2074-4772-bc305bcea839/Srviis01/Srviis01-ctk.vmdk' : msg.fileio.generic....
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vSphereDataProtection-6.1.11 deployment fails at 2%
Hello, I am having trouble deploying vSphereDataProtection-6.1.11 to vSphere 6.5 environment. Have managed to solve old certificate problem by converting ova file with ovftool,but still deploying fails...
View ArticleSnapshot storage management questions
I'm fairly new to ESXI and I'm trying to grasp how snapshots work in this environment. From what I understand so far, it seems like they work almost like GIT repositories, where a master snapshot is...
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how to get valid blocks in vmdk extent file
In Esxi 6.0, I create a vm in NFS store, every virtual disk of the vm has disk_name.vmdk and disk_name-flat.vmdk. disk_name.vmdk:# Disk...
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how to retrieve quicken file from VMware version 7.1.3 since I cannot open...
Please tell me what I need to do to retrieve my Quicken files.
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How to create a backup for my VM's & Snapshots onto another server?
Hello. I want to plan for a storage failure event and wish to backup my VM's and Snapshots to another server that is not associated with the ESXI host. Is this possible? If so, by what means? Would you...
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