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Avamar Virtual Edition 7.1: Failed To Communicate To vCenter During Client...
Once you setup your Avamar Server, you will proceed to add the VMware vCenter as a client to this. You will provide the vCenter IP/FQDN along with the administrator user credentials and the default...
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 ArticleSlow GUI Response On VDP 6.1.3
I recently ran into an issue, where the Backup Job tab was extremely slow in loading the jobs and when I say extremely slow it was taking forever to load the jobs. This was the same with the other tabs...
View ArticleVDP 6.1.3 Backups Hang At 92 Percent When Backing Up VMs On vSAN
Earlier, we had seen an issue where the VDP appliance crashes when we backup a virtual machine residing on a vSAN datastore. This was documented in this VMware KB article here.On VDP 6.1.3 we use VDDK...
View ArticleVDP Verification Job Leaves Undeleted Folders
There was an interesting case opened quite a while back which took almost few months to figure out the solution. The issue was, a backup verification job was performed for a set of VMs. The...
View ArticleVDP Restore Fails With "Operation Not Permitted"
Today, a restore of a virtual machine was failing. Infact, restore of all virtual machines were failing. The data was sent to a data domain, but regardless of what the backend storage is, this issue...
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Unable To Send Test Email In VDP 6.x
In VDP, you can configure SMTP so that the appliance can forward the appliance status, backup job status periodically to the email configured. Once you configure all the settings in Configuration >...
View ArticleVDP Backup Fails With "Failed To Remove Snapshot"
There might be scenarios where you execute a backup for a virtual machine. It starts successfully, takes a snapshot successfully and completes the backup process, however at the very end, it fails to...
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VDP FLR Does Not Expand Mount Points
File Level Recovery client or FLR is used when you want to restore certain files rather than an entire VM. To understand completely on login mode of FLR and how to perform a FLR you can refer this link...
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VDP Backup Fails After A Storage vMotion
If you have a virtual machine added to a VDP backup job and then a Storage vMotion is performed, the next backup of this client might fail. The failure error you will see in the vSphere Client is:VDP:...
View ArticleVDP Backup Fails With The Error "Failed To Attach Disks"
Earlier, we had seen a compatibility issue with VDP 6.1.3 on an ESXi 5.1 environment, where the backup used to fail with the message "Failed to attach disks". More about this can be read hereHowever,...
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Deploying vSphere Data Protection From govc CLI
In vSphere 6.5 GA there have been a lot of reported instances where we are unable to deploy any ova template. In this article, I will be talking in specific to vSphere Data Protection. As you know,...
View ArticleAutomating Backup Cancellation From Command Line
This script allows you to mass cancel active backup jobs from command line of vSphere Data Protection Appliance.#!/bin/bash# This script cancels all active backup jobs from the command...
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Cowsay For Linux SSH Login
Cowsay has been around for quite a while now, but I came across it recently. I wanted to have a more interesting login for couple of data protection VMs and other CentOS boxes. If you follow this blog,...
View ArticleUnable To Start Backup Scheduler In VDP 6.x
You might come across issues, where backup scheduler does not start when you try it from the vdp-configure page or the command line using dpnctl start sched. It fails with:2017/03/22-18:58:53 dpnctl:...
View ArticleFarewell vSphere Data Protection - End of Availability.
On April 5, VMware announced the end of vSphere Data Protection. vSphere 6.5 would be the last release to support VDP. Which means post this, you will need to migrate to third party backup.The EOA...
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Unable To Configure VDP To vCenter - Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter...
So, you might run into issues where you are unable to configure VDP to vCenter and you run into this error.Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventoryIn the vdr-configure.log you will notice the...
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Failed To Start Internal Proxy In VDP 6.x
Mostly after an upgrade most of your backups fail with a status of "No eligible proxies" or "No data"You will not be able to run on demand backups in some cases and this would fail with an error "Adhoc...
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VDP Configure Page Reports - Server Is Still Starting
You might sometimes restart your appliance and you will be presented with the message:The server is still starting. Depending on the configuration, this could take up to 25 minutes. Try again later.No...
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VDP - Avmar Migration: Part-1: Deploying Avamar Virtual Edition 7.2
Since VMware announced, the end of vSphere Data Protection, there is a choice to migrate existing deployment to EMC Avamar. More about EOA can be found in this link here.In this article, we will be...
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