Backup Exec on a virtual computer... I dared?

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• Backups of data to virtual computer within a cluster recovery

  Hi all

  I have a VM cluster with two hosts on the inside (Server1 and Server2) and each host has its own data store.

  VM data recovery will run on one of these hosts (Server1).

  I know that it is possible to store the backups on the local storage of the host (storage of Server1) or on a storage shared (NFS partition), but Is it is also possible to backup on the data store of the host of the second pole (Server2 storage)?

  Thank you

  Antoine

  Antoine,

  Hope I understood that question you correctly, if your device data recovery work on server1, the device will be storage in shared access and local storage of server1 only and will not be able to access the local storage of server2.

  -vCloud9

• Through host SCSI tape drive to the virtual computer with the backup software installed in the comments

  Can I attach an external SCSI tape drive to one of my hosts, and then add it as a device in a virtual machine.

  I want to use backup exec on a virtual machine, rather than having to have a separate physical server to attach the tape drive. I realize that I wouln't be able to vmotion the guest but as its only going to be a backup machine I am happy with that.

  Thanks in advance,

  Yes is possible.

  I have a Dell TL2000 with a dedicated SAS card and it works (not faster than in a real environment, but works).

  You add the SCSI ID of the tape (and the library, if any) to the virtual machine.

  Or, if your hardware can he take charge, using VMDirectPath and give the card on the virtual computer.

  André

• How to restore a virtual computer to another computer using Backup Exec virtual

  Hi all

  I tested VMware 3.5.  We have little budget, so we intend to convert 5-10 dev servers into virtual machine running on an existing ML570 HP.  I created a test VM; I could back up and restore the entire virtual machine using Backup Exec to a physical server without problem.  However I can not restore a virtual machine to a different VM.  Let's say I dv01; I backed up using Backup Exec dv01 on the physical server.  Pretending the host has no I have rebuilt a new host, created a new virtual machine with the same name dv01 and same features.  I restored dv01 from the backup.  The restoration is properly; However, he got a blue screen when I rebooted the virtual computer.  The blue screen went so big that I don't remember what it was, but it's the kind of a dll error.

  We want to keep the budget as small as possible using our existing Backup Exec agents, but it doesn't seem to work here.  Is Backup Exec for VMware agent a MUST?  Catering to the same VM is good, but restore to a different VM is not so simple.

  THX.

  As you can see in http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/buy.html, VCB is included in all editions of VI 3.5.

  André

• Support ESXi 5.0 host FC connected tape drives in the virtual machine running symantec backup exec 2012

  Dear Experts,

  We recently purchased C0H19A: StoreEver HP 1/8 G2 6 - LTO Ultrium 6250 CF TapeAutoloader. The purpose is to backup of VMS data, I mean selected data in virtual machines, as for the exchange of data bases email for server accounts database SQL server etc.. We have a full VM backup plan, so using symantec backup exec software.

  We have this configuration:

  -TWO DL 380 Gen8 servers (running UPDATE2 Esxi 5.0), both servers have not all SCSI ports

  -One SINGLE HP P2000 G2 MSA FC Dual Cntrl storage

  -TWO HP SN6000 12 - pt Windows Pwr FC switch

  -HP ADF

  All them above are related to the CF. Symantec backup exec 2012 is also installed on Windows 2008 R2, which is a virtual machine.

  But now, we are unable to see the tape library autoloader through the virtualization layer in the device of machine Manager virtual backup exec. Reading on internet, I also found some details that connected FC tape drives are not supported by the Esxi hosts. We are really stuck in this situation, all the solutions to this. I also read the article from vmware saying configuration for Esxi 4.0 FC tape drives and later versions

  Installation of a physical server windows with Backup Exec 2012 and HBA and connected to above switches FC is the only way to see the ADF? Even after reading articles on the internet, I'm not clear, please guide what solution I have now to get this thing going, I really need to find solution to this.

  Waiting for answers.

  Kind regards

  Hello, I'm a Backup Exec support engineer and yes the method supported is only by connecting the tape drive to a server of physical media. See the introduction in the Backup Exec HCL on Configurations of http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH175582 and http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH146293 alternative

• VDR - backup of a Windows Server 2003 virtual computer crashes by 59%

  Hi @ all

  an a hook two Windows Server 2003 virtual computer to 59% during the backup. Shell DataRecovy show no errors. The first two weeks it worked perfectly. 7 days, it blocks every time to 59%. All other virtual machines (Server 2000/2008, Linux etc.) work well. I tested with a new backupjob, new backup destination, the off vm, bur whenever it crashes at 59%. I hope that someone can helpd me.

  VDR 1.2 was released yesterday, and this issue should be addressed by this version.

  • Data recovery backups fail to advance at the beginning of the task

  In the course of the incremental backup of a virtual machine, data recovery would not make progress and the backup appliance afficheraient 100% of the CPU. This situation persisted until the reboot of the device. Even after restarting the device backup, no progress was made on the incremental backup. It was the result of using the information about the last backup backup to create a new backup.

• Backup Exec and VCB proxy server configuration

  Hello

  I am installing Backup Exec to back up my virtual machine on an ESX Server, but I get the following error:

  *Backup- VMVCB::ESX01VCGuestVm(DC)ha-datacenter(DC)vmserver03* 
  
  
  V-79-57344-38220 - Backup of the virtual machine 'server03' failed. VMware VCB framework reported the following error
  
  
   
  
  
  Error: Failed to open the disk: Cannot access a SAN/iSCSI LUN backing this virtual disk. (Hint: Option "-m ndb" swtiches vcbMounter to network base disk access if this is what you want.) 
  
  

  It's my setup. I have an ESX Server connected to a San. I store my images on the SAN. I have Backup Exec installed on our file server that is also attached to the SAN and try to use this server as my VCB proxy server. I have installed on my server BE VCB framework and the enterprise Converter 3.03. I have setup a temporary staging that the server can access to place its snapshots on.

  My BE\VCB proxy server cannot access the SAN LUN that holds the images. My understanding of the process is that of BE I navigate on the ESX Server and select the virtual machine, I want to backup, and because the ESX Server can access the SAN LUNS where VM images are stored throughout the process of alignment of the image and place in the temporary storage area so that BE can then throw tape should work.

  Can someone help to solve my problem?

  See you soon

  Yes, it is the intention of the VCB.  Take the resources needed to run the backup out of the host and on the VCB proxy server.  You can define VCB to use the 'LAN' mode which backs the service console of the virtual computer on the network, but it is slower and puts more pressure on the host.

  Make sure you carefully follow the VCB document.  There are some things you need to do on the proxy before presenting the LUN as cutting diskpart automount. If you don't there is a chance that the lun might get corrupted and your VM would go bye-bye.

• Backup Exec and instant / add disk space

  I use Backup Exec to make full VM backups

  After the backup, I can see a snapshot to the virtual machine in the Snapshot Manager

  I deleted all the snapshots of the virtual machine and stop the virtual machine.

  At this point providing drive area is grayed out and e/s can not add disk space on the existing drive

  I don't see that there is a-000001, 000002 vmdk still kicking around in the virtual machine folder

  (a) is it safe to delete the 00001 and 0002?

  (b) any idea how to prevent the creation of the Snapshot Backup Exec files

  Thank you

  Steve

  It is a VM DC

  It turns out that Backup Exec was hung on the VM backup

  Once I canceled the backup, I was able to consolidate

  Thanks for your help

  Steve

• Can I migrate a virtual computer to a new family of CPU? -Cisco Call Manager PUB/SUB

  I currently have 2 host VMware ESXi 4.1:

  1. Dell PER905 - running 16 x 2.39 GHz (core) CPU / Quad-Core AMD Opteron (tm) Processor 8378 (processor type)

  2 cisco UCS C260 M2 (BASE-2646) - running 20 x 2,393 GHz (core) CPU / Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E72870 (processor type)

  
  

  The main objective is to move 2 VM of the Dell host to the host of Cisco, the reason is because Cisco Support said that the virtual machine requires an Intel and not AMD they are currently.  I currently have a Publisher Cisco Call Manager and Call Manager subscriber residing on the host of Dell, they are constructed (non - OVF) on this machine some time ago.  We started to have problems with them and ultimately Cisco indicated above.

  
  

  A few questions come to mind, can someone please shed some light on them for me?

  1. can I migrate these 2 AMD to Intel VM, without her damage/destruction of the virtual machine?  What that is the answer may be, can you explain to me the why?  The answer to the migration of the CPU is dependent on the guest OS or what?  I ask because I did this successfully on a Windows Guest OS virtual machine, but I guess it is that Cisco makes me hesitate/question.

  2 would it not be better to each virtual machine rebuilt on the new host, rather than through migration for the purposes of the CPU?

  3. What is the recommended method to endorse these VM, before proceeding with the migration?  I'm not talking about save data in the call manager for reasons that I will perform a backup it first.  I ask more along the lines of - for the love of the virtual machine itself.

  1. can I migrate these 2 AMD to Intel VM, without her damage/destruction of the virtual machine?  What that is the answer may be, can you explain to me the why?  The answer to the migration of the CPU is dependent on the guest OS or what?  I ask because I did this successfully on a Windows Guest OS virtual machine, but I guess it is that Cisco makes me hesitate/question.

  You should be able to perform a cold migration. The concern is the guest operating system level.  The Cisco device is probably a Linux distro.  The distribution must use the AMD64 instruction set (Intel 64 compatible) and theoretically should migrate fine.  However, if the guest what OS was improved the AMD CPU instructions, he can expect these features when you restart.  We have at least a virtual computer in our environment that we need to stick to a certain family of Intel processor because the software license dig and binds to it, but this is the only scenario that I have met.

  2 would it not be better to each virtual machine rebuilt on the new host, rather than through migration for the purposes of the CPU?

  I feel better on the redeployment, but if the migration is successful and applications run stable, then you reaped just the benefits of virtualization.

  3. What is the recommended method to endorse these VM, before proceeding with the migration?  I'm not talking about save data in the call manager for reasons that I will perform a backup it first.  I ask more along the lines of - for the love of the virtual machine itself.

  You could do something as simple as the cloning of a copy.  Depending on how you are approved for vSphere, you can have the POS to back up your virtual machine.  You can also use a tool such as VMWare Converter or Veeam Backup and replication. Given the importance of these virtual machines, I would get at least 2 backups of different type.  You should be able to validate any backup with VMWare Workstation prior to migration.

• Need advice: VMs 'reconfigure virtual computer' about 10 minutes

  Hi, I need some advice.

  I have about 40 virtual machines distributed on 6 x hosts (ESXi 5.1.0: 1065491).

  I don't remember what I did recently (2 to 3 weeks ago) but:

  -There was no reboot the host, no updates

  -J' did a shrink of log SQL as my vCenter had a connection error (SQL Log full)

  -Restart vCenter (after the reduction of newspapers SQL)

  Only the last week or so, I realized that there are 6 virtual machines that were still in the task to vCenter 'reconfigure virtual machine.

  Her task "reconfigure virtual computer' seem to happen every 10 minutes and 100% almost immediately.

  There is no details on tasks.

  Virtual machines are spread through multiple ESXi hosts, running Windows Server 2008/2012.

  In fact, I found that the culprit after a few tries. There are several problems/causes for it but it leads (a) of the following:

  1. copy of Dell smart, EQL: the smart copy job is stuck. The problem is solved in the Dell EQL VSM 3.5.2 where no instant success are removed and re - in queue.

  2. trend Micro deep Security: just re - synchronize the vCenter and erase/reset the error warning for all computers

  3. Acronis backup stuck or failure that causes the VM "conscious" snapshot "services" to start and then stop. I did to stop the backup task Acronis having not an easy to understand the error log.

  Please kindly update if this can help.

• Issue of Snapshot Backup Exec

  Dear,

  A few days ago, we are facing problem on our virtual server because of space. It is also happen while making the VM backup. most of the servers is suspended and some of the servers are running on snapshot.

  can you please advise me on how I can remove the snapshot, and use the main VMDK file of the server. When I go to edit-> hard drive 1 setting, disk configuration is disabled.

  the other issue is that it's the server vSphere. I'm afraid that if I rebooted the server I will lost the almost 2 weeks of data.

  Please see the bottom of the vmdk files.

  

  I thank you and hope to hear from you.

  Assuming that you now have enough disk space (since the screen shot looks as you use thin discs put in service, so please be careful) you can delete all existing snapshots for a virtual computer by creating a new snapshot (if no snapshot is displayed in the Snapshot Manager) and then clicking the clear all"" button. This will merge all deltas in the base disk.

  André

• Backup Exec 2010 R2 and Vsphere 4.1

  Good day all

  I'm quite puzzeled of Backup Exec 2010 r2 backup of Vsphere 4.1 VM with VM agent. In the image attached data store is thick accrued 1.14 TB LUN on the SAN that has 2 vm. The virtual machine is configured to thin configured as you can see the storage capacity and put in service has about 400 GB discrepancy, but it's only when backups are like BE2010 instant process. Here are the best backup is to 400 GB, but free storage has not diminished, I expect short of space free on the LUNS but is still in treatment of the backup and servers are still in place.

  Can someone explain to me the instant treatment BE2010 and space to line up shots in a BE2010 perspective.

  The snapshot files will contain only the changes made to the virtual machine, while the backup is running.  When the backup starts, it takes a snapshot of the virtual machines, this snapshot blocks of virtual disk files 'main '.  New entries on the virtual disks will be written to the snapshot files, that is, they contain only the changes made to the virtual machine.  The backup task is then sure to read the 'core' virtual drives, knowing that they will not change and will be in the State of the virtual machine when the snapshot was taken.  Once the backup is complete, it will "remove" the snapshot, this 'merges' the changes in the files of 'snapshot' for 'main' virtual disk files

  If the 'snapshot' files will be as large as the amount of changes on the virtual disks while the snapshot is in place.  This has nothing to do with the amount of data backed up by Backup Exec as one reads in the virtual disk files 'main '.

  I guess that you expected the files 'snapshot' to increase the amount of data on the virtual disks and for Backup Exec read these files snashot.

  I hope that makes sense.

• Backup Exec 2010 VADP

  Currently, we use Windows Backup Exec 2010 agents to back up data on 10 VM as their SATA option was very slow.

  I'm looking to move to the use of transport SAN with VADP, but need some assurance on the set-up process. We have two ESX hosts connected via iSCSI to an IBM DS3300 SAN. As I understand it, I have to add the Backup Exec Windows Server to the host group that our ESX host. It is the only way to present LUNS to the server BE, to my knowledge.

  Of course, there is the fear of Automount with Windows Server. I used DISKPART automount disable and scrub, but I hesitate again to add the server to the host BE documentation on the process group does not exist and their support will not confirm anything. IBM storage medium does not recommend adding a Windows Server for the host group, controlled by the ESX hosts.

  I forgot something, or do I have to go against the recommendation of IBM?

  I hope you are using R2 BE2010 if is not upgraded as soon as POSSIBLE.  Backup agent present Vmware in BE 2010 R2 has been updated to correct defects in present in the previous version of the software. Since you have already disabled automount san must present LUNS to the host.

  Add the BE Server to the host group that owns VMFS volumes you want to back up

  * Ensure that your transport settings and Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure backup options are correct.

  Making sure ISCSI initiator able to connect to the specified targets

  Either work its magic

• Backup Exec Meida server as a VM guest

  We had some hardware problems with our current 12.5 Exec from running on a Dell 4400 Server backup.   So we thought we would give him a try to P2V a Dell 2600 ESX 3.5 server.

  Tape drive - tape Exabyte VXA-3 SCSI drive

  Host controller - Adaptec SCSI Ultra 160 29160 controller

  During the test backup very frist after p2v conversion and the shift of the SCSI controller card backup performance was terrible.  About 100 MB per minute.

  I had feared this and thought I would just need to return to a self-sustaining media dedicated server.

  However, the next backup performance and for the following week was about 600 MB / / minute.  It was even better that the old physical Dell 4400 server we had.

  Then all of a sudden about a week later backup now back back about 100 MB speeds / / min.     A job that used to take about 38 minutes to run now takes 4 hours.

  If it is not possible to have a server of media as a guest to talk to the SCSI card in the host ESX 3.5 then so be it.  But it has worked for more than a week, then stopped.

  The only thing that has changed is that I added a virtual disk of 300 GB for Backup Exec Server 2003 32 bit sp2 media server.   So that I could make this record to the file backups.   Given that this speed does not exceed 100 MB / per minute.

  My backups of backups from disk to disk file are around 600 MB speed.   It tells me that the neck of the bottle is not in the network, but in the more likely tape drive SCSI communications.

  I'm back up the server of current reviews as well as other guests as well as other physical servers.

  All the ideas from the community would be greatly appreciated.

  If I just need a cavity on the idea and go back to only a dedicated physical server I can do the same.

  Thank you.

  Randy

  Just to clarify. You just use a single SCSI HBA for a local disk and the tape drive? How many SCSI controllers are in this host at all? Passthrough or paravirtual controllers?

  Close to real world throughput is possible. I am using a media server in a virtual machine and it works pretty well. The SCSI controller dedicated to the tape library is presented paravirtualized for the virtual machine. Flow 4 GB per minute constantly (real world of max. 5 GB/min.). A passthrough controller would make probably even much better.

  But there are some differences between your config and mine. I use a library of tapes LTO4 and paravirtualized dedicated HBA. I read of fiber channel THAT SAN LUNS presented as RDM. And finally and most importantly, my vm is not migrated. It was installed virtual from scratch with only the required drivers.

  Just some thoughts.

• Backup Exec 12.5, ESX 4.0, SBS 2008

  Hi all

  This is probably a discussion experienced; so apologies if this is the case.

  I installed ESX 4.0 on a Dell T710 recently.

  On that note, I installed SBS 2008 as a guest.

  The Dell server has an internal LTO 4 tape drive; who can see the prompt.

  But Backup Exec 12.5 can't seem to write the date on the tape. It fails every time.

  It generates the following error: "an invalid command was sent to the storage device ' "

  It is apparently a known issue. VMware does not support such a together until I think. So is Symantec.

  What are my options?

  Thank you

  CT

  If you are looking for a solution that can work, first try to use a SCSI device.

  Add the SCSI ID of the tape of the virtual machine.

  If it doesn't, try again with VMDirectPath:

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vsp_4_vmdirectpath_host.PDF

  André