Re: VDP 6 Replication Target Hangs Booting Up After NAS Moved OFFSITE
VDP replication is bandwidth efficient because of variable length deduplication and synthetic aware replication. A few other products can do variable length deduplication but VDP\Avamar\Data Domain...
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Re: Trying to Expand storage on VDP advanced 6.0 but getting "Failed to...
VDP 6.1 install can automate the migration. During the install process VDP copies the config and powers down the original VDP appliance. Then you attache the old vmdk's to the new install. Not as...
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Dear Alex, It seems that the full Avamar CLI is available through SSH. Thank you!
View ArticleRe: Trying to Expand storage on VDP advanced 6.0 but getting "Failed to...
@RyanJMN : yes know. but i have concerns for the Efforts as the Disk names are not fitting to the new VDP or? so need to change the vmdk name and pointer file etc,.. or did they cared to fit it? i...
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VDP Replication - password not working in 6.1
I replaced old VDP 6.0.2 instances with the new VDP 6.1.The actual backups seem to be working correctly, but I had 2 VDP instances replicating to an offsite VDP instance.I am trying to re-set up the...
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I would start by logging into CLI on both VDP appliances and confirm you get replies when you ping the other VDP host name.
View ArticleFile level recovery
I'm playing around with VDP 6.1 and have backed up some VM's. I want to try restoring individual files but can't seem to figure out how. I am trying to log in to https://<my vdp...
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You will need to connect to the VDP appliance using a web browser in one of the VMs you already backed up. Use the URL you mentioned and log in with a guest OS local user that has administrator...
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Re: VDP Replication - password not working in 6.1
Good idea, will try that.Is there any way to test the repluser login info on an appliance, or test that it can access port 29000 from the CLI?Thanks!
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What is required to backup all configuration of vmware vcenter appliance...
I know this question has been asked 100 times but what is required to completely backup all configuration of a vcenter appliance? I know how to backup the inventory databaseI know how to backup the...
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Image-based backup is the only solution supported, anyway another things to backup is the SSO configuration and SSL certificates, take a look here: Backing up the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) -...
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Re: VDP Replication - password not working in 6.1
You can test port 29000 using telnet. I'm not aware of a way to test the repluser in VDP. The best I can think of is resetting the VDP admin password (which should also reset the repluser account) or...
View ArticleEncrypt VDP data
Hi, Has anyone tried to encrypt VDP backup data and if so how? We'd need to setup some kind of encryption for our remote ESXi host or VDP appliance running on it. Physical security cannot be fully...
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Re: VDP 6.1 ISO upgrade
No, but there is a pretty good reason and solution. Reason: There is no direct upgrade path from VDP guest OS SLES 11 SP1 in VDP 6.0.x to SLES 11 SP3, which is used for VDP 6.1. Support | How to...
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jhunter, My current VDP 6.02 backs up to a DataDomain target. We don't backup to VMDKs. Will I still have to attach any of the VMDKs from the old VDP? Will I have to do any reconfiguration of the...
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Ideally I would use VDP in conjunction with data domain storage which has an encryption option.
View ArticleRe: VDP 6.1 ISO upgrade
With Data Domain in the mix, it gets a bit trickier. There are some manual steps required to perform a checkpoint restore. These steps are documented in the VDP 6.1 admin guide in this section:...
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