In the upcoming release of vSphere there will be no more VCB. As some bloggers already announced, VCB backup will be phased out and replaced by VDR. At the moment when you download vSphere, you still have a choice between VCB and VDR. So in vSphere 4.1 (if this is the future release number… 8-)), […]
Do you want to see a little magic?
VDR – VMware Data Recovery – Verbose Logs where to find that? I was just reading the VDR Admin guide once more. In details and I found some information that I have overlooked the last time I was reading the pdf guide. Usually when you want to see VDR logs you go and connect to […]
VDR backup fail error
VMware Data Recovery error – Trouble writing files, error -1020 (Sharing violation) Sometimes you came out in a trouble when your VDR backup does report an error. Trouble writing files, error -1020 (Sharing violation) And when you manually trigger the backup it fails with the following error: The destination is not available for a backup […]
Error when VM disks have incorrect changed block tracking configuration
How-to correct the incorrect changed block tracking configuration error. Apparently, there can be a case when you are running your backups using CBT (changed block tracking) feature of vSphere 4, you might gen an error saying that: Disk “Hard disk 1” has incorrect changed block tracking configuration. It means that one or more VM disks […]
Arkeia Backup Appliance setup
I wanted to try to setup another backup solution using CBT (changed block tracking) I talked recently. It’s Arkeia Backup. With the solution I’ll be showing you, you’ll have a possibility to backup for free up to 250 Gb of data. Update: It’s not been tested by me (for now) that this solution works with […]
Performance best practices for SRM 4
New pdf from VMware available for SRM 4 for performance and best practices. You can find the whitepaper at the VMware Website on the product page for SRM 4. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 is one of the products beeing used to protect against a disaster of entire datacenter. The product can recover in […]
Arkeia Free for ESXi – to backup your ESXi 4
Free version of Arkeia Software can backup your ESXi 4 Free version up to 250Gigs. Arkeia Network Backup v 8.1 is a linux Appliance in OVF format which you can download. There is a Free version – see Wiki info and paid version. You must register for the license. There are some limitations to the […]
Upgrading VMware Data Recovery to 1.1 and testing the new FLR GUI
With the new release of vSphere 4, VDR has been updated to v. 1.1. Since I wanted to test the new functionality (now officialy supported), FLR (file level restore). Right now for Windows VMs only, but the linux version will be released in one of the future releases. Now FLR can be used without going […]
Backing up Free version of VMware ESXi 4 with Free VCBGhetto v.2
Free backup tool GhettoVCB2 was released. There has been new version of free script for backing up the VMware’s free version of ESXi 4 . As you shoud know (and I’m sure you do), with the free version of ESXi you don’t have a console (unless you use the unsupported mode – not recommended, only […]
Veeam Backup and recovery – Changed block tracking and vSphere API
Veeam Backup and recovery was during the last week in the center of tweets and forum posts. The announced new version of VEEAM backup I already talked about in my blog post few weeks ago has finally arrived. What makes VEEAM so desired by all the virtual community? What’s hot? Earlier this year the 3.1 […]