I was given an opportunity to test the newly released Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2011. The software is multi-purpose tool which can do several tasks useful for power home user or small business enterprise. It’s a partition, backup/copy multiboot, disk defrag tool…. When you first start the software you have a basic view, with all […]
How-to enable verbose logging in VDR – VMware Data Recovery
A quick post about how to enable verbose logging in VDR. Update: VDR has been replaced in vSphere 5.1 by VDP (vSphere Data Protection). The product is based on EMC’s Avamar code and present an interesting upgrade for existing customers which are upgrading from vSphere 4.x where vSphere Data Protection (VDP) was bundled. But to transition […]
If you’re trying to use Windows CIFS with VDR
Error when trying to use CIFS share as a destination for backup. If you’re trying to setup Windows CIFS as a destination deduplication store for your VMware VDR (VMware Data Recovery) appliance, you might run into an error. It’s an error which you can see at the console of the VDR appliance: Status code returned […]
NFR of Veeam products for every VCP, vExpert or VCI
If you’re VCP, vExpert or VCI go and get NFR keys for your homelab. There are editors and software vendors who cares and who are close to the users…. and customers. One of them is Veeam. With this excellent news from Veeam software. Veeam offers NFR keys of their products for all people certified VCP, […]
How to fix damaged restore points in VDR
VDR – VMware Data Recovery, fixing damaged restore poins. VDR is a part of vSphere Essentials PLUS and above versions (except standard) and it’s a virtual appliance which helps you to protect your Virtual Machines running under VMware vSphere 4.x by using deduplication and CBT. It’s a simple backup solution with no e-mail reporting (yet), […]
Using VMware Data Recovery without vCenter?
Using VDR without vCenter, in which situations? I wonder why would someone would want to use VMware Data Recovery (VDR) without vCenter. Yes there might be a case for that. In case you’re running vCenter as a Virtual Machine (which is good practice) and this VM is being protected by High Availability (HA). Then if […]
VDR appliance not mounting automatically the backup destination after reboot
VDR not mounting automatically a deduplication store. I was having issues with not mounting automatically the backup destination after rebooting the VDR appliance since some time now. This was happening in my environment since I upgraded to the VDR 1.2. This is something that I was aware of and I usually mount the destination deduplication […]
VDR – how to get a log bundle before you call the support
VDR – VMware Data Recovery While listening this year’s VMworld Session on VDR – VMware Data Recovery – while on many of the information I already knew and was aware of, because I install and use VDR quite often. There was an information about how to collect the diagnostic logs, in case anything gets wrong. […]
Use converter 4.0.1 on vSphere 4.1 for restore backups with VCB
If you’re VMware customer and you’re using VCB for restoring backups read on… VMware has extended it’s support to VCB in vSphere 4.1, but if you want to restore the backup images, you must use VMware vCenter Converter. Watch out, these images requires the use of VMware vCenter Converter. If you have done your migration […]
Backing up vCenter 4.X Server
What to backup on your vCenter Server? A KB from VMware has pointed out what should be backed up on your vCenter. There are 2 major things to be considered for backup. Your vCenter database and certificates. Without those 2 elements you can’t login to your vCenter. VUM (update manager) is another element considering to […]
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