WinSCP with a 6.x vCenter Appliance
Written by Suhas SavkoorWith 6.x you have two shells. Appliance shell and the bash shell. When you take a SSH session to the appliance, you will enter the appliance shell and you will have to enable...
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Customize Web Client Login Page
Written by Suhas SavkoorBored of the same blue screen login for vSphere Web Client? Well, don't be bored any more. If you are running 6.0 VMware, then there's a bunch of good news. You can have your...
View ArticleChanging Logging Location For vCenter 6.0
Written by Suhas SavkoorBy default your vCenter 6.0 logs are in the install directory.C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\logs\vmware-vpxNow, if you do not want to have this location for logging, but a...
View ArticleClient Integration Plugin 6.0 Not Working With IE 11 / Chrome 45 and above
Written by Suhas SavkoorThere are always issues regarding Client Integration Plugin not working as expected is logged with VMware. At least, I handle one on a weekly basis. The main thing what happens...
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Deploying External Proxy for VDP
Written by Suhas SavkoorWith VDP, you get 8 internal proxy by default. Using this, you can backup up to 8 VMs concurrently. The moment you configure an external proxy for the VDP, the internal proxy is...
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Re-deploy VDP with existing storage
Written by Suhas SavkoorYou will come across instances where your VDP appliance has gone corrupt or the appliance is not booting at all no matter what fix you have implemented, in this case the simple...
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Migrate Networking From Standard Switch To Distributed Switch
Written by Suhas SavkoorIn this article, let's see how to migrate your ESXi host networking from vSphere Standard Switch to vSphere Distributed Switch.Step 1:Here we see the current configuration of my...
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Migrate Networking From Distributed Switch To Standard Switch
Written by Suhas SavkoorIn the previous article here, we saw how to migrate ESXi networking from Standard Switch to Distributed Switch. In this one, we will perform the reverse of this.Step 1:This is...
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Unable To Register VDP to vCenter in the vdp-configure Page
Written by Suhas SavkoorAfter deploying the OVF template for a new VDP appliance, we will have to go to the vdp-configure page to get the appliance configured to the vCenter.Here, in the vCenter...
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Cannot Open vdp-configure Page Or Check Status of VDP Services
Written by Suhas SavkoorSo when you try to open the :8543/vdp-configure page you will receive the message:"This site can't be reached. ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"When you open SSH to this VDP appliance and...
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Re-register VDP 6.1 to vCenter Server
Written by Suhas SavkoorSometimes, there might be a need to re-register your VDP appliance to your vCenter server, maybe to use a different user account for registration or some issues with the...
View ArticleVDP CLI Commands
Written by Suhas SavkoorHere is a set of commands for various operations that you can perform from the SSH of the VDP appliance. I will update this article as I come across new commands.dpnctl status...
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Cannot Connect VDP To Web Client. SSO Server Could Not Be Found
Written by Suhas SavkoorYou have setup a new VDP appliance in your environment or have an existing one. And suddenly you run into issues regarding connecting this appliance to the Web Client. Every...
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Backup VDP Data To An External Drive
Written by Suhas SavkoorWell, you have got your new vSphere Data Protection set up and have kicked off a few successful backups. The backup data is stored in your VDP datastore safely and you can...
View ArticleVDP 6.1.2 Plugin Not Available After A Fresh Deployment
Written by Suhas SavkoorSo with 6.1.2, there is an issue seen with most of the deployments. Once the new VDP appliance is deployed we do not see the respective plugin in the web client. These are the...
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Changing DNS for VDP 6.1.2 post deployment.
Written by Suhas SavkoorShort article for a quick reference to update the DNS name for VDP appliance. While working on a case today I had to change the DNS name from vdp.vapp.local to...
View ArticleCannot Perform A Backup With VDP 5.1
Written by Suhas SavkoorSo while performing a backup of any virtual machines in my environment on VDP, the backup task used to fail. So, I created one backup job, with one virtual machine in it and ran...
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VDP Deduplication Process
Written by Suhas SavkoorSaving the same data after every iteration of backup is not ideal because the space consumed on you storage increases rapidly. To provide a better storage for backups...
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VDP Hot-Add vs NBD
Written by Suhas SavkoorWhen a backup job is initiated for a virtual machine, there are two methods or protocols by which VDP performs the backup. The first one we have is the Hot-Add protocol, wherein...
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VDP Backup With External Proxy
Written by Suhas Savkoor So in the previous article we saw the types of backup protocol used by VDP. We saw that when the ESXi host which is hosting the VDP appliance does not have the access to the...
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