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Slow Windows file server cluster backup performance

Dear community,We are using NetBackup version 9.1.0.1 and were previously backing up two physical HP servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 shared data volumes without any issue.We have then migrated to two virtual nodes running Windows Server 2019 u...

Install vCenter HTML5 plugin without GUI

Hi!We have a setup with a RHEL7 Master server and two 5250 appliances. It's used for a vSphere 7 plaform. We'd like the HTML Plugin installed, but I can't find an instruction for how to install it without a GUI. Our Master server runs without a GUI, ...

Restore a VM to new DR ESXi outside vCenter

Hi Folks,What are the pre-requisites needed to recover a VM to new ESXi which is not part of your vCenter.

Resolved! Netbackup vmware backup stalls often for sharepoint servers

Hi,we often see that vmware backups of specifically sharepoint servers seem to stall. No error in Netbackup, it just seems to hang... This only happens with vm's hosting Sharepoint. It's not always but often.The only solution there is to cancel th...

Multiple Clients Failing - VMware - status 196

Hi All, I am pretty new to Veritas Netbackup systems and I have been dealing with a status 196 on a client environment that has now been happening for a month. This issue is resulting in multiple policies failing due to a backup window timeout error...

Resolved! NBU Instant Recovery and vmotion

I have a very small VMware environment--about 10 VMs--that lives on one ESXi host, and I am backing it up with a VMware policy. I was looking into Instant Recovery--spinning up a VM that was needed, then using vmotion to move the VM over into the ESX...

Resolved! Netbackup appliance vmware vsan

Hello.I added my vsan vcenter to my vmware access hosts and it synced.When trying to back up any vm, snapshot takes a long time and stops with below error.Can you help?Jul 24, 2020 1:36:11 AM - Info bpbrm (pid=288024) Starting delete snapshot process...

Resolved! Netbackup Appliance with vmware Error 23

Hi all.Recently i implement an appliance.I dont have any SAN connectivity, also I use the appliance as backup host.Once I start any backup from any of my both vcenter, snapshot is taken but when backup starts it has below errors.Did anybody face this...

full backup failed with error code 26

Hi allThanks in advance for reading this post. any tips\ideas\advices are highly appreciatedenvironment setting- NBU 7.7.2 on Windows 2012 R2- 1x master server which also act as media server- all clients are VMware, communicated via Virtual Center, s...

NetBackup Virtual Appliance compatibility with vSphere 6.5

Hi,we are considering deploying NetBackup for a newly installed VMware infrastructure. It's fully virtualized environment and we planned to use NetBackup Virtual Appliances - for both Master server and Backup media server. The installed vSphere versi...

Resolved! VMware backup without SAN disk???

Hi ALL,i'm running NBU 7.7.2 on Windows 2012 R2 (1 master server only) with most of the clients are VMware guest.Master server acted as VMware backup host. Transport type used is NBD.i'm new to the environment and NBU & still trying to understand how...

restore machine vmware insufficient space

Hello,I try to restore a machine of a size of 1 tera the disk this thin provision. When highlighting the restore it says "insufficient space", I use thin provision in the restoration policy and the datastore is 500 Gb.Thank you

Resolved! Netbackup failed to obtain SSO Certificate using VMWare vCloud Suite APIs

Hi We have two netbackup appliance 3.1.1, 5240 in two datacenters one virtulized NBU-master with 8.11. Installation is rather straigth. This problem is somehow related to vmware backup. A bit of the setup for that policy: letsay one databox called dc...

Resolved! vmware netbackup web plugin incorrectly shows backup dates

Hi, netbackup plugin for vmware shows incorrect date (1/1/1970 - begining of unix epoch) in some places (summary, last successful backup, virtual machines etc.). It looks like it is unable to get or parse properly backup date while ending and setting...

Netbackup error VM backup ESX 6.0

Hi, My VM backup is getting error code 4274. But i never seen this error "vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault <33>", or this one "status=36 (SYM_VMC_TASK_REACHED_ERROR_STATE). Error Details: [A general system error occurred: vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault...

Backing up a large vmware environment?

Hi All, I was just looking to see what others are doing with the growth of vm's and the need to back them up. I am using NetBackup 7.1.0.4. I am currently have 1000 vm's to backup per site (i have two sites), I have a mixture of VMX4 & VMX7. I have t...

Resolved! Client Backup over SAN with SAN Client/FT Media Server

Hi everone I want to backup physical server and VMware ESX on the SAN.My master server OS is Windows 2008 R2.I want to install a media server for FT Media Server.How does should configuratin for this media server ? (Hardware/Operating System/HBA etc....

Restore from VMware cause Network problems in virtual machine

Hello When I restore a vmware virtual machine , in the Network section, I do not change anything but when I power on the restored machine and the networks have not the same configuration. The adapters are changed or hidden ... How can we solve it?? N...

Resolved! NetBackup 7.5 & VMware BLIB

Although I know that there is a lot of information about BLIB out there, I've had some conflicting advice from people at Symantec and I've found myself feeling unsure about certain facts regarding it. Apologies if this is covering old ground, but I'v...

Resolved! Limitations for NetBackup Master in a VMware 5.x Guest

We have several customers with NetBackup Master Servers in a VMware guest. Most of these environments are less than 20 FETB and have catalogs less than 100GB. We have a site at 40FETB with a catalog of over 300GB. I fully understand limitation for...

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