Re: Is there a workaround to allow VDP to use NFS windows shares? VDP...
Bottom line, Windows based NFS is not supported for running any VMs. That goes for VDP, Windows, Linux or any other VMs. While I find it handy for mounting a datastore for .iso files, I have had...
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Veeam B&R 8 configuration
Hi I setup my veeam infrastructure with a Veeam Backup manager (virtual) and Veeam Proxy (Physical). The VM backup manager is on the network segment than vcenter. But the proxy and the repository Is...
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Question about restoring using GhettoVCB
I have used ghettoVCB to restore VMs before with no issue for a VM that contains only 1 hard disk. Maybe I'm over thinking this but how do you perform a restore with 2 hard disks(C drive and D drive)....
View ArticleEdit the vSphere Data Protection summary Report
Is it possible to edit the vSphere Data Protection summary Report, which I receive every day as an email message? I can see at the top of this report the number of successfully and failed backups.But...
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Re: How do I delete -ctk.vmdk files left behind by VMDR?
Hi Piggy, No worries, I faced same issue, just few days back. Just make one directory as #mk dir ctkfolderand then #mv xxxx.ctk ctkfolderand then it is almost will not affect anything. Note:If you...
View ArticleObtaining Daily Change Rate Information for VMs
Hi, Does anyone know a way of getting daily change rates info for VMs? I know you can obtain the information via Veeam One. VM Change Rate History: Veeam ONE Dashboards and ReportsHowever the TOP N...
View ArticleInbox Repair tool fails
Inbox Repair tool fails to repair corrupt Outlook. Any another method to repair corrupt Outlook?
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Outlook PST file that is most important file of outlook. Without taking any risk I would suggest you to use professional software to repair your corrupt Outlook PST file. There is lot of other PST...
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HI Thanks for solution. From where I get this PST repair tool? Can you share details?
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Hello You can get this software from their website very easily: http://www.stellarinfo.com/advanced-outlook-repair.php
View ArticlevDPA SQL backup job failing
I'm testing out the vDPA SQL feature and have it working with my vCenter DB server fine and have setup 2 other SQL servers to do some testing and they both fail on the backups. One was a Windows 7 VM...
View ArticleRe: How do I delete -ctk.vmdk files left behind by VMDR?
Hi Piggy, Just getting rid of .ctk files may not 100% resolve the issue, so what is the tool or third party tool you use to take a backup.that may also cause the snap shot not to consolidate....
View ArticleRe: Error #1009 after upgrading from 5.5.6 to 5.8.0
Hi,This is old thread but i would like to add some tips.It seems the vdp 5.8 upgrade broke the configuration when it registers on webclient.I had error 1009 plus another error that forbided me to...
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Re: Is there a workaround to allow VDP to use NFS windows shares? VDP...
Correct. You can use Windows NFS server to create a mount point and run VMs from it but MSFT NFS is not on HCL. There's a good blog post on VMware blogs here: How to Enable NFS on Windows 2008 and...
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VDP 5.8 Jobs Fail with "VDI: Failed to create snapshot." even though one is...
Hey All, Experiencing an issue where my jobs for VMs running on local disk are failing due to what appears to be a timeout on the take snapshot action. So at first I thought it was a timing issue, so...
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Can I add SDHC card to nested ESXi host and simulate as SSD?
I have nested three hosts (ESXi 5.5.0, release build 2068190) onto VMWare Workstation 10.0.4, each host assigned 2 vCPU and 6 GB memory, then I installed small VMs (Win XP, Ubuntu 8 and Small...
View ArticleRe: VADP Exchange 2013 SP1 - Error : Failed to restore item 'ExchangeDB1/test...
Hello again, I would like to add some more information , as I recreated the error in my home lab , a new environment from 0 and yet I still get this error . It seems ( as VMware support pointed out )...
View ArticleVSA CommVault SIMPANA 10 SP9 VSA - Unable to read the disk for virtual machine
Hallo VMware Community, we are running VSA Backup of CommVault SIMPANA. We are using a VSA Proxy. To the Proxy the VMFS-5 LUNs are mapped read-only so that we can use SAN as transport mode for the VMs...
View ArticleRe: Veeam B&R 8 configuration
make sure your esx hosts and veeam proxy server can access the same storage segment.your esx host is being a proxy between your production segment and backup segmentthats the only way it finds to do...
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