When you need to troubleshoot backups in error state, you need to go to see the logs. VMware VDP logs are simple to access and locate. To find the VDP logs, just login to the VDP appliance by going to: https://IP_OF_VDP:8543/vdp-configure/ And from there you can download the logs to your workstation or from where […]
VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Advanced Version
vSphere Data protection has a bigger brother called VDP Advanced. This advanced version of VDP scales up to 8Tb of deduplication storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. That’s rather good news (if you’re not using anything else out there for much less) for medium sized companies willing to use that product, but were kind of […]
Veeam Backup And Replication Cloud Edition Released
Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition has been announced by Veeam Software. This cloud edition is actually kind of cloud gateway, which present the end user with number of pre-configured profiles to the cloud storage providers like Amazon, Microsoft etc (about 15 cloud providers is supported out of the box). But other profiles can be added […]
Veeam Backup Free Edition does some good compression – video
Veeam backup Free edition offers great compression ratio. The free version of Veeam product in fact takes only the blocs that are used for the creation of the compressed .vbk file. The whole VM is actually encapsulated (VMDK disks + VMX configuration file) into single .vbk file. The swap file isn’t backed up either. Veeam […]
What is VMware CTK file format?
A file with extension CTK can be found by using the VMware datastore browser, in the same folder as other VMDK file, where the VM stores all its files (VMDK, VMX, VMSD, NVRAM….). What is VMware CTK file for? The CTK file is used by Changed Block Tracking (CBT). It lists the block changes made since last backup. […]
Nakivo Backup and Replication for VMware vSphere – New Virtualization Backup Company
Nakivo is new company, based in Silicon Valley, California. Nakivo has entered the already crowdy VMware vSphere backup eco-system at the end of October 2012. The company came up from stealth mode since few months, but has already achieved VMware Ready status and has it’s product listed at VMware Exchange. Nakivo is also VMware Technology […]
How-to reset root password in VDP – VMware vSphere Data Protection
In this how-to you’ll see How-to reset root password in VDP (vSphere Data Protection). VDP is bundled with vSphere Essentials Plus, so If you’re on this package, you have the possibility to use it and backup your VMs. If you’re on vSphere Essentials, where no backup product is present, I would suggest going with Veeam Backup […]
What’s new in VMware SRM 5.1.0.1 and 5.0.2
Together with the recent release of vCenter 5.1b, there has been new release of VMware Site Recovery Manger (SRM). The SRM 5.1.0.1 is an update for the SRM 5.1 release and the 5.0.2 is an update for the older 5.0.1 release (in case you’re on the release before upgrading to the 5.1.x). SRM 5.0.2 is […]
VMware VDP quiesce problems of Windows 2008 R2 Guest OS
VDP cannot backup Windows 2008 R2. Are you having troubles Backing up Windows 2008R2 with VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP)? Quiesced snapshots don’t work? It’s probably that you’re using the VMware VSS to quiesce the guest OS. It’s a known issue which can be easily avoided by using the VSS providers which are part of your […]
Starwind VMware Backup for VMware vSphere
Starwind VMware Backup – has been launched. Starwind has released new backup product for VMware vSphere called Starwind Backup for vSphere. Fully compatible with latest vSphere 5.1, the product can do backup and recovery of running VMware vSphere or Hyper-V Virtual Machines. The product has had quite a long beta period, and I already informed you […]
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