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SRM Service Crashes During A Recovery Operation With timedFunc BackTrace
In few scenarios when you run a test recovery or a planned migration, the SRM service will crash. This might happen when you run a specific recovery plan or any recovery plan.If you look into the...
View ArticleSRM Plugin Not Available In Web Client
Today while working on a 6.1.1 fresh SRM deployment we were unable to see the Site Recovery Manager plugin in the web client. The first thing, we do in this case is to go to the Managed Object Browser...
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Unable To Connect VDP To vCenter: "login returned a response status of 204 No...
When connecting a newly deployed VDP or an existing VDP to the web client, you might run into the following error:This is a very generic message and if you have a look at the web client logs, you will...
View ArticleVDP Expired MCSSL, Reports 7778, 7779, 7780, 7781, 9443 As Vulnerable In...
In one of my case, there was a report that 7778, 7779, 7780, 7781, 9443 where reported as vulnerable on VDP 6.1.6. All these are MCS java based ports and you can confirm them by running:# netstat -nlp...
View ArticlevSphere Replication Jobs Fail Due to NFC_NO_MEMORY
There might be instances where the replication will run into an Error State or RPO violation state with NFC errors. When you click on the vCenter object in web client and navigate to the summary tab...
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VDP Cannot Connect To Web Client "MIME media type application/octet-stream...
Yet another issue. You will see this generic message in web client when you connect to the web client VDP plugin:As usual, we always check the web client logs on the vCenter for more information. And...
View ArticleUnable To Send Scheduled Email Reports In VDP...
When I was working on a 6.1.5 VDP deployment, the test emails were successful, however, the scheduled email reports used to fail and in the vdr-server.log the below back trace was seen:2018-02-14...
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SRM Service Crashes Due To CR/LF Conversion
In a postgreSQL SRM deployment, the service might crash if the Carriage Return / Line Feed bit is enabled. The back trace would not tell much, even with trivia logging I could not make much out of it....
View ArticleVDP Tomcat Service Crashes With "line 1, column 0, byte 0"
While working with one of my colleague the last day, there was an issue where the tomcat service would not start up.root@vdp:/home/admin/#: dpnctl statusIdentity added: /home/dpn/.ssh/dpnid...
View ArticleVDP Backup Fails With Time Out - End
So you might be aware that a backup job in VDP can run upto 24 hours, post which it ideally times out with Time Out end status. If this is what you are facing, then you can extend the backup window...
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SRM CentOS 7.4 IP Customization Fails
If you are using SRM 6.0.x or SRM 6.1.x and you are trying to test failover a CentOS 7.4 machine with IP Customization the Customize IP Section of the recovery fails with the messageThe guest operating...
View ArticleCreating A VMFS Volume From Command Line
One of the alternate methods to formatting a new VMFS volume from the GUI is to create the same from the SSH of the ESXi host.The process is quite simple and you can follow them as mentioned below:1....
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Unable To Make Changes On A Virtual Machine - The operation is not allowed in...
Recently, while working on a case we noticed that we were unable to make changes to any virtual machine on a particular NetApp NFS datastore. We were unable to add disks, increase existing VMDKs or...
View ArticleEmbedded Replication Server Disconnected In vSphere Replication 5.8
A vSphere replication server comes with an embedded replication service to manage all the traffic and vR queries in addition to an option of deploying add on servers. In 5.8 or older vSphere...
View ArticleMaintenance Task Fails On VDP When Connected To Data Domain
There are many instances where the maintenance task fails on VDP. This article is in specific to VDP when integrated with data domain and moreover when the DDoS version is 6.1 and above.The checkpoint...
View ArticleSRM Test Recovery Fails: "Failed to create snapshots of replica devices"
When using SRM with array based replication, a test recovery operation will take a snapshot of the replica LUN, present it and mount it on the ESX server to bring up the VMs on an isolated network. In...
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Upgrading vCenter Appliance From 6.5 to 6.7
So as you know, vSphere 6.7 is now GA and this article will speak about upgrading an embedded PSC deployment of 6.5 vCenter appliance to 6.7. Once you download the 6.7 VCSA ISO installermount the ISO...
View ArticleSRM Service Fails To Start: "Could not initialize Vdb connection Data source...
In few cases, you might come across a scenario where the Site Recovery Manager service does not start and in the Event Viewer you will notice the following back trace for the vmware-dr service.VMware...
View ArticleVDP Backup And Maintenance Tasks Fail With "DDR result code: 5004, desc:...
I had come across a scenario where the backups on VDP appliance connected to a data domain used to fail constantly and the backup logs for the avtar service had the following...
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Upgrading vSphere Replication From 6.5 To 8.1
With the release of vSphere Replication 8.1, the upgrade path is not how it was earlier. The 8.1 vR server now hosts a PhotonOS and the upgrade is similar to a vCenter migration. In this case, you will...
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Bad Exit Code: 1 During Upgrade Of vSphere Replication To 8.1
With the release of 8.1 vSphere replication comes a ton of new upgrade and deployment issues. The one common issue is the Bad Exit Code: 1 error during the upgrade phase. This is valid for 6.1.2 or...
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VDP 6.1.8 Upgrade Stalls At 97 Percent
When upgrading a vSphere Data Protection appliance to 6.1.8 there might be a case where the upgrade stalls at 97 percent with the below task stuck in progressIn the avinstaller.log.0 located under...
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Unable To Configure Or Reconfigure Protection Groups In SRM:...
When you try to reconfigure or create a new protection group you might run into the following message when you click on the Finish option. java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed outBelow is a...
View ArticleUnable To Pair SRM Sites: "Server certificate chain not verified"
So first things first, as of this post, you might know that I have moved out of VMware and ventured further into backup and recovery solutions domain. Currently, I work as a solutions engineer at...
View ArticleUnderstanding Perfbeat Logging In GSAN
If you have ever come across GSAN logs in VDP located under /data01/cur you would sometimes notice the below logging:2018/05/28-10:34:31.01397 {0.0} [perfbeat.3:196] WARN: <1060>...
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