Unable to activate plugin vCenter data recovery

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• vCenter data recovery - is it upgrade for VCB

  Hello

  I wonder if vCenter data recovery is an upgrade for existing ESX enterprise clients using VCB, or it is a new product which must be purchased?

  any ideas?

  VMware data recovery is intended as a product recovery and backup of disk to disk for virtual machines.

  The product is included in some editions of vSphere and downloadable and add-on for some of the other (for example standard).

  hope that helps,

  Lee Dilworth

• Can not find the plugin for data recovery?

  Hi guys,.

  I don't have the time to investigate this, but I was wondering if you can get started me.

  I installed vCenter4 and have only 1 host ESX 4 up to now (ESX4i).

  I attributed an enterprise of this machine license.

  I can't see the plugin for recovering data anywhere in my vCenter.

  What Miss me?

  I'm going through the documentation as we speak. Thank you

  
  
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  Have you downloaded vDR from the download page where you went to get vCenter/ESX 4.0? Once installed, you will need to go to the Plug-ins and download/activate the plugin. This is at least the case for VCB, VUM, etc..

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• Activate plugin vCenter only for selected users

  Hello!

  Is it possible to activate a plugin (NetApp VSC for Applications and Solutions) only for selected users of vCenter or hide a group of users?

  Thank you!

  Dirk

  There are no permissions that control activation or deactivation of a plugin, only permissions in the plugin.

  VSC, for example:

  

• Restore backups of data to different vcenter server recovery

  Hello

  We have separated closed vCenter in our society in different places, I'm just starting to use Vmware Data Recovery instead of VCB for backups. Is it possible to restore the backup of Vmware Data Recovery of Virtual Machines to a different vCenter Server?

  If you can, you could point me to documentation that shows how?

  Thank you

  Glenn

  You can create another device VDR with the same data from disk (or NAS share).

  Then connect to this device (you can also use the VDR plugin when you are connected to a host, not only when you are connected to vCenter) and wait until it import the backup catalog.

  André

• vCenter Standard and vSphere4 Enterprise Plus - data recovery device?

  Hello

  We currently have vCenter Standard with vSphere4 Enterprise more hosts multiple and if I check the functionality under license, we have available data recovery but I can't seem to find the device anywhere?  Can someone help me get started?  I need to install the device of the FVO and the plugin for my vCenter.  Thank you.

  Here: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4

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• VMware Data Recovery 2 in a vCenter Server

  Hi all

  I need a base backup of VMS backup solution. I know that each camera VDR is bounded to vCenter server, you might not use vcenter several with one camera VDR. But in a sense the opposite? I use several VDR devices with a vCenter server? I know about the limits of the VDR and probably I can achieve limit of 2 TB and only solution in this case use another camera VDR, but I don't know if it is possible to use more than a VDR with a vCenter.

  You can use up to 10 of VDR with a VirtualCenter.

  Look at the "VMware Data Recovery Administration Guide" on page 16:

  Special data recovery Compatibility Considerations:

  Ten aircraft recovery backup of data for each instance of vCenter server.

  Paul

• ESXi 4.1 + VMware Data Recovery 1.2 (without vCenter)

  Hello

  I installed VMware Data Recovery 1.2 on my ESXi 4.1 and when I connect to VMware Data Recovery I get the message "connected to the ESX Server, automatic backups will not be made.

  This means that scheduled backups only work if I receive vCenter? I without vCenter run backups manually?

  That is right. vDR is configured to discover your VM inventory via vCenter. The vDR is designed to provide a central interface for your VM backup/restore via vCenter.  The cool thing about this is that vDR keep track of your virtual machines if you transfer them via vMotion, HA, DRS, etc. But, Yes, you NEED vCenter.

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• Used to install VMware Data Recovery Plugin

  I am trying to install the Plugin data recovery VMware on one XP SP3 machine that is running the version of vSphere Client 4.0.0 build 162856.  I run the VMwareDataRecoveryPlugin.msi file and I get the message "VMware VSphere Client is required for the installation".  Course, the client is installed, but for some reason any he thinks.  Anyone else run into this?  I installed the plugin on several other PCs so I know it works.  There is something different in this case, and I can't understand that.

  Thanks in advance for the help.

  What version of the plugin are you using?

  Have you tried to reinstall the vSphere client?

  André

• vCenter, ESX (3.5 & 4), data recovery

  The data recovery component can be added to an ESX 3.5 or 4.0 server?

  If Yes, what is the pn and the cost?

  ?:|

  You can add the data recovery for ESX 4.0 ratings (SKU: VS4-STD-C + SnS is required)

  But you also need to vCenter Server, cause of data recovery is integrated into this tool.

  André

• vCenter / Vsphere 4.0 data recovery

  I have to do a small infrastructure:

  n.2 vmware ESX vsphere 4.0

  n.1 iSCSI storage

  n.1 vcenter server.

  Can I use entire vmware vcenter server data recovery? I have an another iscsi storage to make backups.

  Best regards.

  Yes, vCenter vSphere 4.0 is required for vDR and will be necessary. Take a look at the comparison table of different editions: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

  Most resembles the way forward or you can use advanced or higher if you need more features.

  You can also buy the vDR separately as a la carte in question, take a look at how to buy for vDR: http://www.vmware.com/products/data-recovery/buy.html

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• 1.2.1 and vcenter 4.1 data recovery

  Hi all

  installation of data recovery, I can ping machine, I can connect the https, but when trying to connect VC to DR i've got invites to infinite (user password by default Administrator with login windows in vSphere). pwd is of course good... anyone know why?

  TNX

  Dan

  I found this http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1018216

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• Installation location of data recovery

  This seems to be a stupid question, but data recovery software VMWare (not the device component) is supposed to be installed on the VCenter server or a host computer that you use to connect to VCenter with the VSphere client?  I guess that's the VCenter server, but I keep seeing people talk about using data without VCenter recovery so it looks that it can be installed on a client that connects to the VCenter server via the VSphere client.

  Thank you... Rich.

  Hello

  Yes, it's a client plugin that can be installed on any machine where you make the VI client sessions to your server host or vCenter.

  Concerning

• VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Server services stop auto

  SERVER VMWARE VCENTER SITE RECOVERY MANAGER, service stops automatically.

  Section of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, pid = 2084, version = 4.0.0 build = build-192921, option = released
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.595 06868 WARNING "App"] Cannot create the writer console
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.611 04220 info "App"] Set of dump dir "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\DumpFiles"
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.611 04220 info "App"] The initialization of the DBManager
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 info "App"] Current working directory: C:\Program VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\bin
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 verbose "ThreadPool"] TaskMax = 10, IoMin = 1, IoMax = 21
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 verbose "ThreadPool"] Definition of MTA COM threading model
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 info "App"] Try DrExternalRecoveryApi
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 verbose "App"] Plugin path 0: dr-external-recovery - api dll
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 verbose "App"] Absolute path of the plugin 0: C:\Program VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\bin\dr-external-recovery-api.dll
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 info "App"] Try RecoverySecondary
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 verbose "App"] Plugin path 1: dr-secondary - recovery.dll
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 verbose "App"] Absolute path of the plugin 1: C:\Program VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\bin\dr-secondary-recovery.dll
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 info "App"] Try SanProvider
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 verbose "App"] Plugin path 2: dr - san - provider.dll
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.736 04220 verbose "App"] Absolute path of the plugin 2: C:\Program VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager\bin\dr-san-provider.dll
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.767 04220 'Local' info] Created from the ./locale/ locale subsystem with in default locale.
  [2010-12-19 08:39:33.783 04220 info "SrmServiceInstance"] DrExtApi Instance of Service is initialized.

  Post edited by: a.p. (VMware Community Manager)

  Moved to the 'Site Recovery Manager' forum and edited the object line to fix the formatting

  While I can't give you a solution, I can share that I had a similar problem with an SRM installation.  Like yours, mine was a working facility which, for some strange reason, began to exhibit the same symptoms.  Start the service, in a second or two, stopped service.

  I opened a ticket with VMware on the issue and in more than three months of back and fourth Exchange with various Tech support I have ever received a satisfactory answer on what caused it.  The 'solution' they gave me was to remove the database SQL RS and re - install SRM.  This 'solution' has worked, but if this question comes up, I'll probably have to back unpleasant, emphasizing the fact that they solve the problem.

  I wish I could be more help, but that's it.  I feel your pain.

• Data recovery backup job fails with error-3902

  Version of the device - 1.2.0.1131

  Data store - cifs datastore - 489 gb

  Number of backup VMS - 26

  Average size vm - 25 GB

  Question I get is "unable to create snaptshot for vmnamehere, error-3902 (file error)."

  I tried ping all the esx host, which works very well, as well as vcenter host, very much so.  I put the esx hosts and vcenter host in/etc/hosts file too.

  I restarted the vdr unit that works very well.

  I can take snapshots of the virtual machines manually as well.

  Backups have worked on those virtual machines in the past and just stopped all of a sudden.

  Integrity controls work.

  What else can I try?

  Post edited by: kdon

  If money is not a problem I suggest go for vRanger veeam backup or connection of quest. It removes all the headaches I have with data recovery.