Hello,
Running vCenter 6.0 and VDP 6.1 and after launching a backup job ( through the vSphere web client) I can see the job start but only using the viclient's recent tasks ( it DOES NOT show any status or progress through the web client). Now what makes this problem an issue is that one of the VM's I had in the backup job failed to create a shapshot. The ONLY REASON I know this is because the viclient recent tasks showing the progress of the backup job alerted me to the issue. Even after a refresh several times in the webclient there is not indication that the job was ever even run, completed, or FAILED under the Recent Tasks section. Looking in the Alarms section of the web client also fails to show any indication that there was a failed snapshot on one of the backup jobs. The only way to view the status was to look at the Tasks Console in the web client and there I could also see the job and failed backup but unless you are already looking for the failure you would never have known.
It is very concerning when VMware is pushing clients to use the web client more and the viclient less yet seems we keep losing functionality. Has anyone else had this issue with VDP 6.1? If so is there some fix to allow "RECENT TASKS" to actually show the same status in the web client and in the viclient ( They are both talking to the same vCenter so why dont they contain the same information????) The exact builds I am using are the following
vCenter Server 6.0.0 build 3018524
VDP 6.1.1.19
ESXi 6.0.0 build 3620759
And before its suggested the run the VDP 6.1.2 ( latest version) I already tried that and that version had bigger issues freezing up and failing so the version I am using seemed to be more stable :-)