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• 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

• Help - DR4000 and Symantec Backup Exec 2012

  We strive to set up a DR4000 with Symantec Backup Exec 2012 VRay Edition.

  DR4000 firmware is 1.0.1.1

  I created a new container and all NFS and CIFS permissions without restrictions. (Free access)

  When I go to add a new drive according to the storage location to BE, everything goes OK until the BE trying to access the share location when I get an authentication error.  He seems to BE trying to gain access to the share using the default service account, (which the DR4000 does not of course).

  I am a little confused because I thought that if it's full, permissions are enabled on the actions of DR4000, then it does not matter which account is used.

  There is also no documentation on how to implement the DR4000 and BE with storage devices open that apparently two support, but all the examples I've seen ignores OSD and uses just a disk path leaves ordinary.

  We are stuck with shiny new Dell and DR4000 backup server and no way to use them.

  If anyone can help?

  Ok.  Problem solved.  I disconnected the DR4000 of the field, it still wouldn't connect.  I joined it to the domain, and then BE could access the share OK.  I don't know why it did not work before.  A note, why you cannot join the DR4000 to the domain by using the domain administrator account?  You must use another account with domain administrator rights.

• Preferred for the backup of the free ESXi 4.1

  It's been a while since I looked in this because we now have a business license, but we will deploy some free versions of ESXi 4.1 soon so much time to look again.  GhettoVCB is still the preferred method in the community?  Anyone know of any other third party other than Veeam option?

  Most of the commercial solutions backup does support not the free edition together with VMware. I still think that the ghettoVCB is a solution very to pay it or not.

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-10780 is a list of a few backup solutions for ESX (i)

• How do I backup virtual machines free ESXI?

  Hi all

  I tried to use Veeam but for reasons beyond my comprehension, they support free ESXI! The only other way I can think is to export OVF to each virtual machine, but it's very heavy.

  I use ESXI 5.0.

  ... and to add to what has already mentioned the André - take a look at explore Trilead VMX

• Symantec backup exec - VCB?

  By using another backup server (Backup Exec) with VCB framework installed and using the same server as a Proxy.

  Do I still need to install the vCenter VCB framework?

  Kind regards

  Phil

  Hello.

  By using another backup server (Backup Exec) with VCB framework installed and using the same server as a Proxy.

  Here's everything you need to know.

  Do I still need to install the vCenter VCB framework?

  No, as long as it is not the same server with Backup Exec on it.

  Good luck!

• For Symantec Backup Exec backup scripts

  Hello

  Does anyone know how to change the module of integration of Backup Exec for monolithic backups.  It's create sparse backups at this moment and identification is somewhat more complicated.

  Good instructions on how to restore the backup of the file partially allocated to another ESX host would be useful.

  Thank you very much

  Russell

  DOH!  Sorry, I gave you the location for VCB 1.1, it changed to 1.5. It should be added to the following:

  
  function AttachVMData(VMinfo, vmMoRef, createSnapshot, deleteSnapshot)
  
  
  

  Dave

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

  Hi all

  I think strongly about moving Symantec Backup Exec on a virtual computer.  Before I do, I was wondering if anyone has the words of wisdom.   With the material that I have, I will be forced to join the SCSI

  cable for the ESX Server backup & hope I can communicate

  in this way.  Don't believe not that if anyone here knows if I need some special software/drivers to make sure that everything plays nice?

  What I have:

  • Backup Exec 12.5

  • Tape drive Quantum PX502

  • ESX 3.5

  Feedbackup welcomed.

  I have a 2008 VM Windows BE12.5.  Origianally host was ESX3.5, but I continued to get PSODs every time the drive was accessed.  Tape drive is an HP 920 LTO3 autoloader.  SCSI card has been a a HP card LSI brand, but is not compatible with the new server hardware that we would go to anyway, so we tried an Adaptec 39160 (spare part one of our previous tape drive) and ESX does not PSODs, but the 920 drive disliked the SCSI card.  (The 920 can't slow down correctly to Ultra160.)  We have replaced the 39160 with a 29320LPE (we didn't need to double the 39xxx channel and EPA because we had to PCIe connectors) and he CMTF.  29320ALS is on the list of compatibility ESX4, but not the EPL.  ALS is a RAID card that is not recommended for tape drives, but we crossed our fingers.  We have upgraded the ESX3.5 to ESXi4 server and all is well now.  SCSI tape drives seem to be hit or miss.

  I noticed that the page Web PX502 says that he supports iSCSi.  This can be a good option for you, if your current SCSI (or whatever HBA) is not compatible with ESX.  We have a Quantum DXi3500 VTL connected via iSCSI to the same Windows VM using Windows iSCSI initiator '.   No problems with ESX compatiibility, as it is Windows communicates directly on the LAN to the Quantum.  We had to dedicate a gigabit NIC for iSCSI communication.  But we can get around 1000 MB/min to 350 MB/min vs Quantum LTO3 iSCSI should be fast enough to a physical tape drive.  The Quantum VTL and iSCSI have been quite reliable and was allowed me the time to get the physical tape drive problems brought.

• Best ways to backup free ESXi?

  Hello

  I think to use the free version of the ESXi (4.0) for some production VMs, namely a file server, but my biggest concern is to make sure that they get saved correctly. I know with the paid version of vSphere, you get the best options of backup, but what are my options with the free version? I hope someone can answer these questions for me:

  (1) if I want to just manually copy the virtual files that make up the VMs system (VMDK, vmxs, etc.) to another location on the network, do I need to stop the virtual machines before I can do this? What happens if I copy during the race. He let me same? If I have these copies, and my ESXi host goes down, I should be able to put them on another ESXi host by adding to its inventory, correct?

  (2) I read on a tool called ghettoVCB, but documentation looked pretty scary. For someone new mV, it's something that I could easily set up, or that it will be a nightmare to make it work?

  (3) level backup of files what? I have backup exec, but it seems that if I need to buy the $3 k if virtual agent I want to use for the VMs backup. This may be a question for the Symantec forums, but backup exec will allow me to do just granular base backups of a virtual computer, agentless files? In other words, if I do not need to backup the VMDK, etc and just want to save the data of the company on the virtual file server as if I had to back up a physical box, can do this without the virtual backup exec agent?

  (4) ideally I think I would like to manually copy files VMFS from time to time to have an image of the operating system of the virtual machine, then do file level backups every night with backup exec. That sounds like a good plan, or is there a better way to do it? If so, any other ideas would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Josh

  Take a snapshot, make the copy, and then remove the snapshot to save the VMDK.  Which freezes the entire file in time whereas it is copied (but does not stop the virtual machine).

  Backups at level OS using BackupExec are very good.  "Bare metal" restore will be longer.

  Manual copy of the VMs would be fine or use ghettoVCB as you read.  Don't forget to keep copies of your VMX files because these can become corrupted in certain situations.

  HTH

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  Please give points for any helpful answer.

• Free ESXi version limitation

  Where can I find a complete list of the ESXi version free limitations and characteristics?

  Have changed since version 5.x?

  Concerning

  Marius

  • Number of cores per physical processor: no limit
  • Number of physical CPUs for each host: no limit
  • Number of logical processors for each host: 480
  • Maximum vCPUs per virtual machine: 8 Maximum
  • No support of VMware.
  • No vStorage APIs available.

  Free virtualization with VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) | United States

• Version 5.5 of free ESXi - feature VSMP not license, requires 12 have 8

  Installed version of ESXi 5.5 Freeware. Tried to create VM Linux with 12 cores, got an error:

  Not approved featured, VSMP requires 12 8.

  I thought that the memory/cpu limits have been abolished in 5.5.

  I'm using the same license that I have ESXi 5.0, is that the problem?

  The limitation of 8 vCPUs still apply for the free hypervisor. However, the physical limitations have been removed.

  André

• Free version of ESXi: characteristics and limitation

  I am looking for a document that describes what can be done using the free ESXi 5.5 standalone version.

  • How physucal CPU are supported?
  • The amount of memory?
  • How many virtual machines?
  • ...

  Concerning

  Marius

  Take a look at free virtualization with VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) | United States

• Free ESXi version question.

  Hello.

  I'm looking to adapt the free version of ESXi.

  I checked the limitation of the free version, but I do not see a feature available

  Please let me know what features can I use?

  Thank you.

  You can deploy and run virtual machines on it. That's basically all

  Most of these characteristics of fantasy of the paid license will require a vCenter and is not available for the free version.

  the features it will show in the license tab in client vSpere is:

  -Up to 32 GB of memory (hardware RAM in the host server)

  -Up to 8-way virtual SMP (which means that you can create virtual machines with 8 virtual processors)

  Concerning

• Errors, try to update the free version of ESXi 5.0 to 5.1

  1.) first of all, this is the command and the error I get:

  ~ # esxcli software installer--depot=/vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip vib
  [MetadataDownloadError]
  Could not download zip:/vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip?index.xml deposit, to jump

  (('zip:/vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip?index.xml', '', "erreur fichier index.xml dele de /vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-))

  (("201210001.zip: [Errno 2] no such file or directory: ' / vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip'"))
  URL = zip:/vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip?index.xml
  Please see the log file for more details.

  2.) on the environment and Notes that relate to this issue:
  The VMwareHost is installed on a Dell PowerEdge 1900 with 16 GB of RAM. Access to the host by using the vSphere Client. I used this environment successfully for six

  months. After the update of my workstation to Windows 8 I was more able to view my virtual machines. An error message was displayed on top of the VM console

  says: ' the VMRC console has disconnected... try to reconnect. "
  An online search indicated that I needed to update ESXi 5.0 to 5.1.

  I am running:
  Version 5.0.0 of ESXi build 623860
  vSphere Client Version 5.0.0 build 623373

  (3.) I found many resources who asked how to upgrade the free version of ESXi 5.0 to 5.1

  With a free license or an evaluation, it is not allowed to download "VMware ESXi - 5.1.0 - 799733 - depot.zip.
  However, by going to this site: http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/download.portal
  I can download build 838463 as described in the paragraph below of this page/site http://www.vladan.fr/esxi-free-how-to-upgrade-to-esxi-5-1/

  "UPDATE: If you want to upgrade to the latest ESXi 5.1 (build 838463), you should see this article: VMware ESXi 5.1, Patch version ESXi510-201210001 and get it."

  file ESXi510 - 201210001.zip, from the VMware download page. »

  This page/site explains how to apply the patch
  http://communities.VMware.com/people/vmroyale/blog/2011/09/15/updating-ESXi-5--single-use-esxcli-how-to

  4.) I connect to the host using PuTTY. Here's the session info:
  

  Using the user name "root".
  Keyboard-interactive authentication.
  Password:
  The time and date of this connection have been sent in the system logs.

  VMware offers support, powerful system administration tools.  Please
  See www.vmware.com/go/sysadmintools for more details.

  ESXi shell can be disabled by an administrative user. See the
  vSphere documentation security for more information.
  ~ #

  5.) I then download this file downloaded on the host at the following address
  /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip

  (6.) to check... I am able to list the contents of the repository with the following command:

  ~ esxcli # sources vib liste--depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/patches/ESXi510-201210001.zip software | more
  Name Version Release Date acceptance level provider status
  -----------------------------  ----------------------------------  ------  ------------  ----------------  ------
  Update SCSI-bnx2i 1.9.1d.v50.1 - 5vmw.510.0.0.799733 VMware 2012-08-02 VMwareCertified
  updated sata-sata-promise 2: 12 - 3vmw.510.0.0.799733 VMware 2012-08-02 VMwareCertified
  updated net-sky2 1: 20 - 2vmw.510.0.0.799733 VMware 2012-08-02 VMwareCertified
  ESX-base 5.1.0 - 0.5.838463 VMware 2012-09-12 VMwareCertified update
  5.1.0 - 0.0.799733 of xserver-ESX VMware 2012 - 08 - 02 new VMwareCertified
  Misc-cnic-register 1, 1 - 1vmw.510.0.0.799733 VMware 2012-08-02 VMwareCertified update
  ...
  ...
  ...

  7.) when I try to run the install command I get the error stated at the top of this post. How do I update my

  If you don't have access to the repository offline package and the method of installation CD interactive is not what you want, you can take a look at for example http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/09/a-pretty-cool-method-of-upgrading-to.html (and the links in the blog post) to see how you can upgrade.

  André

• The free version of ESXi 4.0 is that it certified EAL4?

  Hi all

  I installed the free version of ESXI 4.0 on server Fujutsu S300, I want to know that the free version of ESXi 4.0 is certified EAL4 or not.

  and I need to see the difference between the free version and the retail version.

  Thank you

  -Anwar

  AnwarBenfredj wrote:

  .. do you have a link explaining that the free version of ESXI4.0 is certified EAL4?

  have you seen the blog below. If free or paid, the hypervisor is the same.  Licenensig unlocks / locks features, no security.

  http://blogs.VMware.com/security/2010/11/VMware-vSphere-V40-earns-common-criteria-EAL4-certification.html