What is the best way to restore VMs after a server refresh
Hello all, First time poster here. A group of people at my job have their own VMWare environment that they setup a while back. It has 3 VMs up and running on it and they want to bring up a fourth one....
View ArticleHow to un-flatten a -flat
For some unknown reason, the LSI RAID controller in my server won't let me mirror an existing drive without blowing it up. Very annoying. So I'm stuck trying to back up my vmware situation and...
View ArticleBackup Solution with vmdirectpath enabled vm (esxi5.1) ?
Hi, has anyone a working solution for backing up a VM with vmdirectpath (AVM PCI Controller) without shutting down the guest ? may this possible in the future ? any rumors about ?Thanks-Armin
View ArticleVDP fails to start backup jobs
Hello all, I'm new in VDP. I try to run backup job in VDP, but job not started. In VDP I see failure status whitout any error code. VDP create snaphot and after that remove it. I read KB:...
View ArticleHow to debug why VDP is not backing up one VM?
VDP backs up five machines every night. Over the last week, one machine is not getting backed up (server 2008 R2 domain controller). If I tell it to manually back up the machine, it works. How do I...
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection 5.1 Reinstallation after failed!
Hello everyone, I am recently coming across something that is happening quietly frequently with my clients. Their VDP appliance is just failling out of a sudden for different reasons. Some of this...
View ArticleOff-site backup with VDP?
So currently we have vSphere Essentials Plus, with 3 ESXi 5.1 host machines, a dedicated vCenter Server and a ReadyNAS 3200. I'm using VMware Data Protection to do backups of each of the VMs each day,...
View ArticleBackup on NFS Share - questions
Hi,Just have a few question about my backups: Backup Scenario Source: Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualized on VMware 5.1. C: Disk is "System" D: is "Data". D: size is 1 TB. Purely a File Server.Target:...
View Article"Empty" vmkds with VCB proxy and SAN
The drives are "unpartitioned", it's like if disks were empty. Common files are succesfully restored but FLAT vmdks are not working. I've also noticed that VM disks are gone on the VM settings screen...
View ArticleBackup of vSphere Data Protection 5.1 Appliance
Hi everyone, Is there a way to backup VDP Appliance in case it fails I can use the backup to just fireup and reuse the backups? Many of my clients are having issue with VDP where the appliance just...
View ArticleVMWare x Veeam x Backup Exec 2012
Good morning everydoby! I have had a big problema with this applications: VMWare x Veeam x Backup Exec.If I process the job backup (Backup Exec) with Veeam stoped, the job finish with success. But, if...
View ArticleVMware Data Recover Upgrade - Question
We are currently running vCenter 4.1 and preparing to upgrade to vCenter 5.1. We have a version 1.2 VDR appliance with a backup store (RDM). I'm looking through the instructions specified here for...
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HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader mit SC44GE HBA ESXi5
Hallo, ich habe auf einem Server ESXi 4.1in diesem Server habe ich einen SAS Controller SC44GE, daran angeschlossen ein HP S 1/8 G2 AutoloaderDefault erkannte 4.1 nur ein Tape Laufwerk mittels...
View ArticleError backing up vCenter through VDP
I am getting an error when trying to backup my vCenter server through VDP: VDP: Backup job (vCenter VMs) failed to backup client V Center 2 64. Execution error: E10056:Restore failed due to existing...
View ArticleMS Exchange - Can it be broken by VDP?
Hello everyone, I have a client that after he hava messed up with a bunch of things with out any knowledge. He came up to me saying that he Exchange Server broke because of the VDP is backing it up...
View ArticleVDP failing on Server 2012 w/ MS's dedupe
I just started trying to use VDP and the first server I added is my user data server which is a Server 2012 with Microsofts Dedupe. VDP isn't having any of it. Does this mean I'm going to have to go...
View ArticleCan´t backup one VM
We have VDP major version 5.1.20.24 minor version 6.1.81.130_2.0.24.24 The backup works ok on Several VMs without any issues but one. The VM OS is WS2008R2. We have another VMs with same OS with backup...
View ArticleVDP 5.1.x Read Only Web Access
hi guys Now since Web client is the only way to access VDP, is there a way to create a read only user that has access to VDP in any way?At least to check if the backup was OK. I create a read only user...
View ArticleIs it possible to restore vmware guest OS and database from clonebackup ?
We use vsphere4.1 and guest OS (WIndows2008R2) and database(SQL server 2008R2 which is installed in guest windows2008R2 OS). If we take cloneback up guest OS partition and data partition which include...
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
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