Hello,
We are trying to use BE2010 to set up backups for a Hyper-V cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2. Our SAN is an iSCSI Dell MD3000i. We have installed the hardware provider on all the Hyper-V hosts, and it shows up properly in vssadmin list p...
We opened a support ticket with Microsoft, and the Microsoft engineer verified the obvious, and confirmed the problem is with Dell's VSS provider and we then confronted Dell about it, but Dell completely ignored us.
Apparently, they know that CSV bac...
I would have to respectfully disagree on the offhost backup part. :)
Here's Dell's official technical paper on this: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/powervault-md3200-series-hyper-v-protection.pdf
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A more convenient ...
Offhost backups would be the next step, we can't even take regular backups right now using the SAN's hardware VSS provider.
Anyway, offhost backups are disabled, just Advanced Open File is enabled and set to Volume Shadow Copy Service - Automatic.
We recently bought a new Dell MD3200i alongside our existing MD3000i to work around this backup problem, thinking the VSS provider must have been fixed in the new version of the SAN.
No luck.
We're using a trial version of Backup Exec 201...
These are in the job log:
- AOFO: Initialization failure on: "VRTSRV::\\Hyper-V.xxxxxxxxxxxxx\Hyper-V?HA?VM\xxxxxxxxxxx". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
V-79-10000-11226 - VSS Snapshot error. The M...
