Re: VDP - backup status
Do I need to specify which proxy is used during each backup? I have multiple clusters at my main site which uses VDP. I have backup jobs for each cluster and a proxy deployed to each cluster since the...
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I don't think there is any configuration setting where you can specify which proxy will be used for each backup however if you want to double check on this you might want to open a service request with...
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From the SSH run, mccli activity show --active This will show all the active running jobs with bytes progress To refresh every 2 seconds:watch -d mccli activity show --active # Suhas
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hi, if you have plan to add VDP to production as new implementation I would suggest to consider VMware's recent announcement. VMware announced the End Of Availability (EOA) for vSphere Data...
View ArticleI need your thoughts on ESXi business continuity
Currently we use ShadowProtect, which works with Oracle's virtual box to do that and it works great, especially for physical machines. However, I'm looking for something that works with VMware so...
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There are a lot of different ways to approach this depending on your budget and infrastructure. I use SAN to SAN replication, Veeam, and Zerto depending on the use case. SAN to SAN works great for BC...
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You could try vpshere replicaiton and replicate the virtual machine to a different locaiton. One of the features is point in time snapshots. I've never used that feature but it sounds like it might be...
View ArticleCrash Consistent and application consistent backup for the same job
I'm using VDP 6.1 in ESXi 6 environment cluster to backup virtual machines and I noted the same Windows guest OS has different kind of backup: Crash Consistent or application consistent backup E.g. the...
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Please do either way - this will help us bring you guys (our end users) a better experience.
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ITaaP: They both sound very good. I will need to do some more digging into them Thanks!
View ArticleRe: I need your thoughts on ESXi business continuity
sjesse We actually do something similar to that now with web VMs using GhettoVCB, but those VMs are a lot smaller of course. We have a VM on each host that provides an NFS target and they...
View ArticleApós atualização do VDP para 6.1, appliance não aparece para gerenciá-lo
Olá,Atualizamos a versão do VDP para a 6.1, porem não é possível selecionar o novo appliance no drop-down do VDP para gerenciá-lo (aparece somente o nome da VM do appliance antigo); Verificamos que...
View ArticleRe: Crash Consistent and application consistent backup for the same job
Usually if there is a quiesce failure the restore point would be crash consistent. Else they appear as app consistent.Should not be an issue if this is a non DB hosted VM. # Suhas
View ArticleRe: Após atualização do VDP para 6.1, appliance não aparece para gerenciá-lo
Hi There, what version of vdp when you say 6.1? There are many releases of 6.1 and VC 6.5 supports VDP 6.1.4 only. Translating with google translate:Qual versão do vdp quando você diz 6.1? Existem...
View ArticleRe: Crash Consistent and application consistent backup for the same job
I'd like to set the kind of backup (quiescence or not quiescence) for my vm backup.For default behaviour, VDP makes application consistent backup and if It fails, it can fall back to non quiescence...
View ArticleRe: Crash Consistent and application consistent backup for the same job
That would be in the logs. The logs are at:/usr/local/avamarclient/var The log we need is >backup-job-name>-*EPOCH*-vmimagew.log You can search by keyword "VDP-" and it will take you to the part...
View ArticleRe: Crash Consistent and application consistent backup for the same job
I can set backup only as crash consistent task?
View ArticleRe: Crash Consistent and application consistent backup for the same job
This will be on VM level. You will have to disable quiescing for the VM.Enabling and disabling Windows 2008 and later application-consistent quiescing on ESXi/ESX (1028881) | VMware KB # Suhas
View ArticleVDP 6.0.2 - Missing gear icon for adding Data Domain
Hi all. We have deployed a VDP 6,0.2 over a vSphere 5.5 on which we will integrate a Data Domain as storage for backups. However, after going to the storage tab there is no "gear icon" to get action...
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