Re: Unable to 'connect' to VDP after successful appliance deployment
I've seen this two times before, there was a mis-match between the VDP appliance, vCenter server and the ESXi host that the VDP appliance was hosted on. After setting the same NTP source on all,...
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Backup performed from vdp.vmgcdom.local and Proxy Host is vmw-g8-1.vmgcdom.local.The VM being backed up - FileSrv1 located at Host Name=vmw-cisco-srv2.vmgcdom.local.Log says disk being hotadd is on...
View Articlequestion about vdp sizing
Hi All, Does anyone know how vdp works when backing up a vm. I mean if i have a vm with 2 vmdk as below :Vmdk 1 size 100gb thick (used space is 30 gb)Vmdk 2 size 500gb thin (used space is 200 gb) How...
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VDP Sizing depends on many factors VM Storage Size, deduplication, Change rate, Amount of data, retention period etc.For initial few backups, storage quickly fills because every client that you back up...
View ArticleRe: Unable to 'connect' to VDP after successful appliance deployment
Thanks for the reply - I have the VC and VDP both running on the same host for the time being. The guests time sync to the host through vmtools and the host timesyncs to our PDCe and they are all...
View ArticleRe: Backup Solution: From Vcenter - NAS -Other Server (Disaster Recovery).
Re: Backup Solution: From Vcenter - NAS -Other Server (Disaster Recovery).Thank you, ThompsG..Ok, here is what I did:I created a ISCSI in the NAS (It is a QNAP), I mean target and LUN. Then in the...
View ArticleRe: Backup Solution: From Vcenter - NAS -Other Server (Disaster Recovery).
Sorry I didn't explain well why i wanted to create a LUN in the SAn and add storage in the Vcenter. I am trying to add some storage from the SAN and then create a datastore in the Vcenter, once I do...
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Re: VDP Restart and hangs at...
My hangs as well but it did it at first by itself. I have exit status=0 Multiple reboots and hard shutdowns.
View ArticleRe: Backup Solution: From Vcenter - NAS -Other Server (Disaster Recovery).
Hi there, Let's confirm a couple of things while trying to troubleshoot this Can you confirm that the QNAP is on the same subnet as the VMkernel port used for iSCSI on the ESXi host?Can you confirm...
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Re: VDP 6.1 can´t connect to vdp appliance inside vsphere web client
The hotfixes described in kb 2145686 Deploying the vSphere Data Protection 6.1.2 plug-in fails with the error: Type 'com.vmware.vim.binding.vim.dvs.PortConne… solved the issue
View ArticleRe: Unable to 'connect' to VDP after successful appliance deployment
Just to confirm everything has been checked for time and rebooted and no change to the symptoms and still noting that I can see in any log files - just a blind refusal to cooperate. I'll get a ticket...
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Re: Unable to 'connect' to VDP after successful appliance deployment
Feel free to attach the VDP and vCenter Server logs while VMware review the issue.
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Re: question about vdp sizing
Thx Praonv. So basically there is no way to give an exact sizing from the start and as the VDP best practice stated that we must put vm on vdp one at a time to measure how much space that we needs...
View Articlebackup esxi to google disk or dropbox
hi all, sorry for possibly repeating question, but maybe someone have done backup to dropbox or doodle drive using esxi script or Linux machine? Or I will need to have windows machine with esxi-cli and...
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Re: backup esxi to google disk or dropbox
Google Drive / Dropbox are designed for files rather than large single VMDks What exactly are you trying to backup here, your datastores or the VM's with their disks?
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Backup VM's. Cause Google disk storage seems much cheaper for me than buying separate disk... And I do not care if google or someone else has possibility to use my files.... I like to live my life...
View ArticleRe: VDP Backup Appliance will not start after deleting snapshots from locked VM
It sounds like you need to remove the VMDKs from the VM that had the snapshot issue from the VDP appliance. If I remember correctly there is a bug in VADP 5.5 that can periodically prevent the VMDK...
View ArticleRe: VDP Backup Appliance will not start after deleting snapshots from locked VM
Nevermind. I found the mounted device to the vmdk in the edit (other devices). I removed it and it is booting now.
View ArticleVDP Backup Appliance will not start after deleting snapshots from locked VM
I have a VM that I couldn't delete snapshots for because they were locked. The snapshot manager didn't show any snapshots so they had to be deleted from the data store. I powered down the backup...
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