VDP Appliance died overnight
HI spent the weekend upgrading to the latest 5.1.11 image. it ran fine for 2 days, did backups did checkpoint ... not a problem. then I come in Wed and It says it has had a problem and to roll back to...
View ArticleVDP using NFS storage
Hi I have 2 VDP appliance sitting on QNAP storage (nfs), unfortunately the VM -> datastore -> nfs -> qnap is failing I am not getting the through put I would like. I have noticed that I do...
View ArticleRe: How to reduce downtime
Hi guys, many thank for your your reply. But my doubts still persist: 1) you are suggesting to use HA: for what I have understood, HA has a shared location for VM location. This is the problem: When a...
View ArticleRe: Failed to create snapshot for vm error -3960
Just adding to this in case it saves someone some time. I had the registry settings as listed by max2479 but still getting the error Failed to create snapshot for <vmname>, error -3960 (cannot...
View ArticleVDP - File Level Restore - UAC Issue
Hi @all! I've installed VDP-Appliance as documented and have successful made backups for all VM's in my Cluster (3 ESXi-Hosts).Today I tried to use the feature "file level recovery" for some...
View ArticleRe: VDP - File Level Restore - UAC Issue
Hi,This is interesting. An issue, first of this kind.I am not really sure about the solution, but stepping into your shoe's only thing i could think of is disable UAC on just 1 windows client and use...
View ArticleRe: VDP not sending Summary Report since Sunday (time change).
Do you find a solution for the problem?
View ArticleRe: Backup Cannot be performed while VDP Server is in Admin state
I ran into a similar issue yesterday with the my VDP appliance being stuck in state Admin. After cobbling together little snippets from different disparate areas of the interwebs, I was able to get my...
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Re: VDR 2.0 no longer deleting old backups
HiPlease follow this linkhttp://satyanarayan-m.blogspot.com/2011/10/removing-old-backups-from-vmware-vdr.html Yours,Satya
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Re: VDR not performing as documented
Jim Millard wrote: Disclaimer: I've opened a case with support, but thought I'd put it out there for the community, too. I've got VDR doing backups to a VMDK, and I've tested the restores, so from a...
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Re: Licence for vSphere 4 Enterprise
homermg wrote: Hi all, Just trying to find out if we can use DR. We have several hosts ESX 4.X and ESXi 4.x with different licenses and VMWare Server 4.1 running.So now i would like to install a VDR to...
View ArticleRe: How to reduce downtime
without shared storage that is very hard you will need to replicate the VM vmdk to the other machine. for static info front end machines app servers that might be easy but for SQL don't think that is...
View ArticleStorage device is 90% full
HI I moved my VDP from 1 VC to another, unregistered and re registered, had to rebuild my VC after I got some support from VMWare GRRR... Any way I am backing up the same machines and I was sitting at...
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Re: VDR network traffic
fert2 wrote: Is it possible to back up VM in a remote site without network traffic between sites (only one VC in HQ)?We are planing to start additional office in a remote site. We have HQ with 2 esxi...
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Re: VDR 2.0 how to list vm to backup with a script ?
Massimo TRENTO wrote: Hello,I would like to implement a script to detect if all my vm are included on a vdr backup job.Do you think it is feasable?I looked on internet and did not found any...
View ArticleRe: How to reduce downtime
Hi,thanks for supporting me.But I am still confusing: My problem isNot only the HOST A goes on maintenance but also the VM1 on HOST A (e.g.: Windows or application update).My question is:how can I...
View ArticleRe: How to reduce downtime
Okay I thought I read this one way and then read the replies and read it another way. You have 3 tasks 1) update the ESXs hosts2) update Application server - presumption here is that they are clustered...
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Re: VDR 2.0 cifs errors
PRODECO wrote: Hi. I have upgraded from VDR 1.2 to 2.0 and have problems with dedupe store on cifs share on Windows 7. Previous VDR had no problem with backup on cifs share, but new version throws me...
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