Re: esxi raid disaster - how to recover my vm's?
Hey welcome to the communities, your Raid 5 is offline, so 2 disks failed at once? You can rebuild your RAID an reinstall esxi, or if you don't have disks available, you could install esxi on an USB...
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Thanks for your answer. I will do that and post my results. For the raid we are unsure if the disks are really broken as none of them is marked as fail (red). We have virtual machines on both raids so...
View ArticleVDP Advanced 5.5 Network Design assistance.
I've been looking for documentation on the best setup for my VDP Advanced backup server. I'm not having too much luck and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I'm probably way...
View ArticleCBT and migration of backup solution
Hi, I have a question regarding cbt and backup.Take the following example : I backup my VMs with a backup solution using cbt (for example with Netbackup). I change my backup solution to backup my VMs...
View ArticleRe: Backup solution for (free) ESXi
If you want a backup program for ESXi 5.1/5.5 that is simple, agentless, can do hot backups, sends a complete report after each backup and can even provision hard disk space by deleting the eldest...
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No CBT reset is required in this case, as both solutions use CBT functionality independently not affecting each other. Cheers.
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Thank you for your answer.But one thing I don't understand : there is just one cbt file per vmdk so how different backups solutions can use this cbt file without affecting other solution?
View ArticleRe: CBT and migration of backup solution
In a nutshell, CBT keeps track of changes by setting a "ChangeID" for the data block that is modified. This Change ID is incremented each time a snapshot is created. The backup application will then...
View ArticleRe: Backup solution for (free) ESXi
there is Thin backup available through which you can take backup of the VMs on Free ESX.
View ArticleRe: How to freeing up space in VDP with the capacity health check limit reached?
Hi, Have You resolved your issue ?? I'm asking because I have the same problem, 96 % used capacity. Is there only solution to open a support case ?? Regards, Sebastian Ulatowski
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Re: esxi raid disaster - how to recover my vm's?
Ok I booted esxi from usb drive and are copying the vm's now. So far so good.! Now my boss wants to buy a new server and add this raid controller:IBM Redbooks | ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller for...
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Sorry, another question: What do you guys think about the idea to keep esxi on the usb drive and use the raid system only as datastore. Is that common practice? I think its much easier to repair/update...
View ArticleRe: How to freeing up space in VDP with the capacity health check limit reached?
I've deployed new VDP and started new backup jobs. It was the most simple and fast way for me. I didn't open a support case.
View ArticleRe: esxi raid disaster - how to recover my vm's?
You can do that. Most server vendors offer ESXi preinstalled on internal USB or SD cards. Once booted, you don't have much action on the disk. When you use USB drive, ESXi doesn't create a permanent...
View ArticleRe: How do you find out the size of backups in VDP
I also would like to know about this, it is not an uncommon question from a system admnistrator I think. I hope the job report could show something useful to users. Another posted mentioned command...
View ArticleRe: How do you find out the size of backups in VDP
Your question is valid. It would be nice if the job report shows the information.FYI, the job ID is still available from thick client. (select VDP-appliance in the inventory -> Tasks & Events...
View ArticleWhere VDPA backup file located and how big?
As subject. Let set if anyone got some idea. I tried to backup something like 200G data, but just found the VDP appliance size increased just around 10G. Is it stored somewhere else? Many thanks for...
View ArticleRe: Where VDPA backup file located and how big?
Nothing wrong. The de-duplication comes in place and 200G (Non-deduplicated data) can be 10G (Deduplicated data). VDPA offers best de-dupe technology so you can save much on backup storage.In my...
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Re: Where VDPA backup file located and how big?
Thanks for your reply, snekkalapudi. In vCenter, I would see the "used storage" for the VDP appliance is 41.7GB, but when I login to the appliance I can see the total size should far more than that....
View ArticleRe: Where VDPA backup file located and how big?
The disks attached to the VDP appliance (Other than Hard Disk-1) is the location where actual backups are stored.Hard Disk -1 is the VDP base OS disk that contains all of VDP backup logic
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