Re: vCenter VCSA ... to VDP or not to VDP?
Good question. In my opinion I would cautiously still back it up with VDP even though its not officially supported because there really isn't any other practical option. I hope VMWare does support...
View ArticleRe: VDP 6 Expand Storage Did not Rebalance files
I've experienced something similar and i've never fully seen a full re-balance. So I noticed once you expand (in my cause i doubled) the capacit, the new disks don't actually get data until backups...
View ArticleRe: VDP on which network.
surprised you were even able to get it to run on a NAS. Ive had horrible performance on anything less than a 10gb capable NAS.
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Re: Reconnect to DDBoost share on DataDomain?
This is valuable stuff. I just scored a DD unit and I can't wait to try it out.
View ArticleRe: vCenter VCSA ... to VDP or not to VDP?
Ryan, thanks for sharing your opinion. I will probably go for backing up VCSA in a separate VDP group. Thus, there is a good likelyhood of lower load and interference. btw: EMC has issued a rebranded...
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Re: vCenter VCSA ... to VDP or not to VDP?
VDP, Networker VMware protection and Avamar all are based off the same code but are slightly different branch of development. All three have slightly different features and limitations.
View ArticleRe: VDP CPU Usage
VMware KB: VMware VirtualCenter Server memory usage grows when VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.8 is in use
View ArticleRe: Monitoring of VDP 6.0 backups
Just try this good workaround, and after restarting my appliance, i can't logon to VDP appliance through vsphere web client. The server start but not all services and i can't logon to the vdp-configure...
View ArticleRe: Monitoring of VDP 6.0 backups
Just reverted to original file configuration, and it works... i will try again. Is it possible to query SQL inside the VAPP ? PSQL is installed, but when trying to query, there is no return...and maybe...
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Re: VDP 5.8 - An Unexpected Error with error code 10020
Did you ever resolve this error code? I'm currently using VDP 6.0.1, but have seen this error since v5.5 and have never been able to determine the cause or how to fix it. I can't even determine what...
View ArticleDefault PWD in /usr/local/vdr/server/etc/vdrserver.cfg?
Looking at the config bundle collected by VDP Web interface, we found that /usr/local/vdr/server/etc/vdrserver.cfg contains a password changeme: #vdr appliance pwd credential=changemeAs we changed the...
View ArticleRe: VDP Fails with Error E10052 - Seems VMs freeze while VDP backs up.
Hello everyone, I am experiencing this same issue with right after upgrading to VDP 6.0.Error looks like this:2015-07-16T20:00:42.238+04:00 avvcbimage Info <14631>: Snapshot...
View ArticleRe: VDP Fails with Error E10052 - Seems VMs freeze while VDP backs up.
Same problem here with VDP 6.0 on VSAN 6.0: Timeout during snapshot creation for some of our VMs (same log errors)Another problem is the creation of snapshots leads to a short network connection...
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Vmware VPD server can't be start up
My VDP server can't be startup normal. VDP5.1I power on VDP server ,then core service failed to start.I can open vdp web config page, but can't startup core services and management service and backup...
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VDP 6 Replication Target Hangs Booting Up After NAS Moved OFFSITE
Hi All, My environment is vSphere 6 with 2x VDP Appliances (one for local backup and one as a replication target for a offsite NAS) Disk Structure:VDP (local): VDP.vmdk -> On local SAN...
View ArticleRe: Vmware VPD server can't be start up
Dear Henry_wang, Kindly run these commands on your vdp cl :emwebapp.sh --stopemwebapp.sh --start. Regards,RGS
View ArticleRe: VDP 6 Replication Target Hangs Booting Up After NAS Moved OFFSITE
I suggest trying to power on the replicate VDP appliance and re-ip. It isn't well documented by VMware but you can find other posts in this community on which configuration files need to be updated....
View ArticleRe: VDP Fails with Error E10052 - Seems VMs freeze while VDP backs up.
How much read and write latency do you see on your storage during backups? Possibly disabling quiescing could help if crash consistent backup is sufficient. VDP requires a decent amount of disk...
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