Nagios sent us an alert suggesting a virtual machine had a very high load. The OS itself looked fine and nothing appeared wrong with the server itself. Upon firing up vCenter I noticed that the virtual machine in question needed consolidating. Looking at Veeam backups from last night it seemed the job had failed. When right clicking and consolidating Read More…
Category: Veeam
Veeam Backup Error: VDDK command cannot be completed in reasonable time
Issue We have a Veeam Repository Server (6.5.0.106) located in Datacentre 1. We have a 1Gb link to Datacentre 2 which houses a Veeam Proxy server. The Veeam Repository Server calls all the jobs both locally in DC1 and in DC2 remotely. All backup data is stored locally – via pRDMs – to their DC (so Read More…
Extremely Slow Snapshot Deletion
Scenario: We have a VM running on an ESXi5.1 host that was taking over an hour to backup via Veeam. All the others were taking considerably less. During the next run of the scheduled Veeam backup it seemed that the slow-down occurred when removing the snapshot Veeam creates. Having a browse of the datastore and Read More…
Veeam error after upgrade to ESX 5.1
Components: ESXi 5.1 , Veeam 6.5 Scenario: I upgraded all of my hosts from Esxi 5.0 to 5.1. Veeam 6.5 had been installed (upgraded from 6.1) last week and had been backing up successfully. When the job ran again as normal after ESXi 5.1 had been installed I got an error on all my VMs Read More…
Veeam/VMware Error: Failed to parse “.”
OS: Centos6.2 (64bit) running on ESXi5 / Veeam 6.0 Scenario: I tried to backup a freshly created VM with Veeam Backup but get the message: Error: Failed to parse “.” Looking at the .vmx file there appeared to be an incomplete value: isolation. =”true” I removed this then, bingo! Please note that you”ll need to switch Read More…
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