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Configuring Data Domain Virtual Edition And Connecting It To A VDP Appliance
Recently while browsing through my VMware repository, I came across EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition. Before this, the only time where I worked on EMC DD cases where on a web ex, which had integration /...
View ArticleUnderstanding VDP Backups In A Data Domain Mtree
This is going to be a high level view of how to find out which backups on data domain relate to which clients on the VDP. Previously, we saw how to deploy and configure a data domain and connect it to...
View ArticlevSphere Data Protection /data0? Partitions Are 100 Percent.
VDP can be connected to a data domain or a local deduplication store to contain all the backup data. This article discusses in specific when VDP is connected to a data domain. As far as the deployment...
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VDP Reports Incorrect Information About Protected Clients
When you connect to vSphere Data Protection in your web client, switch to the Reports tab and select Unprotected Clients, you will see a list of VMs that are not protected by VDP. When I say not...
View ArticleMCS Fails To Start On VDP. ERROR: gsan rollbacktime: xxxxxxx does not match...
Recently while working on a case, I came across the following issue. The MCS service was not coming up on a newly deployed VDP with existing drives. If I tried to start the MCS manually, the error...
View ArticleVDP Stuck In A Configuration Loop
There have been a few cases logged with VMware where the newly deployed VDP appliance gets stuck in a configuration loop. Not to worry, there is now a fix for this. A little insight to what this is:...
View ArticleMigrating VDP From 5.8 and 6.0 To 6.1.x With Data Domain
You cannot upgrade a vSphere Data Protection appliance from 5.8.x and 6.0.x to 6.1.x due to the difference in the underlying SUSE Linux version. Since the earlier versions of vSphere Data Protection...
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Avigui.html Shows Err_Connection_Refused in Avamar Virtual Edition 7.1
Recently I started deploying and testing the EMC Avamar Virtual Edition, and one of the first issue I ran into was with the configuration. The deployment of the appliance is pretty simple. The Avamar...
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VDP Status Error: Data Domain Storage Status Is Not Available
Today when I logged into my lab to do bit of testing on my vSphere Data Protection 6.1 appliance I noticed the following in the VDP plugin in Web Client:It was stating, "The Data Domain storage status...
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VDP / EMC Avamar Console: Login Incorrect Before Entering Password
Today while force simulating failed root login attempts I ran into an issue. So, I had a VDP 6.1.2 appliance installed and opened a console to this. Upon requesting for the "root" credentials, I simply...
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vSphere 6.5: What is vCenter High Availability
In 6.0 we had the option to provide high availability for the Platform Services Controller by deploying redundant PSC nodes in the same SSO domain and utilizing a manual re point command or a Load...
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vSphere 6.5: Installing vCenter Appliance 6.5
With the release of vSphere 6.5, the installation of vCenter appliance just got a whole lot easier. Earlier, we required client integration plugin to be available, and then the deployment was done...
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vSphere 6.5: Login To Web Client Fails With Invalid Credentials
So, today I was making certain changes on my password policies on vSphere 6.5 and I ran into an interesting issue. I had created a user in the SSO domain (vmware.local), called as happycow@vmware.local...
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vSphere 6.5: Installing vCenter Server Appliance Via Command Line
Along with the GUI method of deploying vCenter appliance, there is a command line path as well, which I would say is quite fun and easy to follow. There are a set of pre-defined templates available and...
View ArticleDude, Where's My Logs?
Well, what do we have here? Let's say, we created one backup Job in vSphere Data Protection Appliance, and we added 30 virtual machines to it. Next, we started the backup for this job, and you let it...
View ArticleVDP Backups Stuck In "Waiting-Client" State
I was recently working on a case where VDP 5.5.6 never started its backup jobs. When I select the backup job and select Backup Now, it shows the job has been started successfully, however, there is no...
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VDP 6.1.3 First Look
So over the last week, there has been multiple products from VMware going live, and the most awaited one was the vSphere 6.5.With vSphere 6.5, the add-on VMware products have to be on their compatible...
View ArticleVDP SQL Agent Backup Fails: Operating System Error 0x8007000e
While the SQL agent was configured successfully for the SQL box, the backups were failing continuously for this virtual machine. Upon viewing the backup logs, located at C:\Program Files\avp\var\, the...
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VDP 6.1: Unable To Expand Storage
So, there has been few tricky issues going on with expanding VDP storage drives. This section would talk about specifically about OS Kernel not picking up the partition extents.A brief intro about...
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