How does VDP incremental backup really work?
Hi, I'm a little bit confused about how VDP incremental backup really work. Let's say I use 7 days retention policy.On the first day, VDP does full backup. Then on, the subsequent backups after full...
View ArticleBackup Fail || 2010 Exchange VM Have RDM Partition ||
ESXi : 5.0 Ent plusVM1 : Exchange 2010 on Server 2008 R2VM2 : DAG 2010VDR : 2.0.3Except Exchange all vm Backup is...
View ArticleRe: VDP : SO many issues
Make sure you use the latest version 5.5.6. SSH into the VDP appliance and supply output from:- status.dpn- dpnctl status- df -h You can also check these log files for...
View ArticleRe: Restore VM Offisite
yes, that's the think they say they RPO-RTO is not that important so they can have their infrastructure down for 2 days so they don't need continuos replica....I think replica is kind of expensive for...
View ArticleUnable to delete hung backup job
Hello, I have a hung backup job which I would like to delete... How do I go about doing that? (screen shot attached).I am able to start new backups and those completed successfully. vCenter server...
View ArticleRe: Unable to delete hung backup job
Hi Welcome to communities. Did you restarted backup jobif not here is the commandservice avagent-vmware restart
View ArticleRe: Backup Fail || 2010 Exchange VM Have RDM Partition ||
Hi Welcome to communities. Here is the best practice.http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/exchange-2010-on-vmware-best-practices-guide.pdf
View ArticleRe: How does VDP incremental backup really work?
Hi Welcome to communities. you need to go with below URL.http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Dataprotection-Introduction.pdf...
View ArticleRe: VDP suddenly stopped to schedule backups
Not to bother on an old task, but not long ago I had the same problems. With no expirience on VDP at the beginning of the support-journey I reached a very high skill with the recovery of VDPs now. A...
View Articlehow to optimize Veam Backup Speed ???
we have small environment in which i configured Openfiler as a iSCSI Backup. I configured load balancing on vmkernel ports (Vstroage1 , vstroage2 with Load Balancing attached to on of ESXi.What i...
View ArticleConsolidating Parent's Snapshots
Pretty new to vSphere/VMWare, so excuse me if this is stupid question. I have backups failing due to too many pre-existing snapshots. Is it safe to consolidate Parent VM's snapshots if there are linked...
View ArticleHow to access VM backup out retention policy
I made a backup on 7 of July and after that day I turned off the VDP. The retention is of 30gg.Now the 27th of August I cannot see any restore point. Noone backup was performed since July. Is there a...
View ArticleHow to change the size of VDP
Hi!I need to configure VDP with size 2TiB and the provisioning mode shall be Thick Lazy-Zeroed. At the moment due to disk space limitation I can configure only 1 TiB VDP. I expect to have the...
View ArticleRe: How to change the size of VDP
Hi, the documentation is right, you can't change the size. You will have to deploy a new appliance. Also I don't know about any tool to migrate VDP restore points to the new appliance, only from old...
View ArticleRe: How to access VM backup out retention policy
Hi Welcome to communities. No ,you can't get back beyond retention period data.
View ArticleRe: Consolidating Parent's Snapshots
Hi Welcome to communities. Here is the URL what VMWARE suggesting to manage snapshot. , http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1025279
View ArticleRe: How to change the size of VDP
You can deploy the 2TB using thin and after get additional disk, convert the VDP disk to thick. This blog post says this is a VMware recommendation, but I at moment can't found any official reference:...
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