Event Logs?
Hi I'm actually really shocked that it has virtually no support for Event Logs, SNMP or anything... unfortunately I didn't spot this while testing, now I'm stuck with software that I cannot monitor!...
View ArticleQuest Catalog Service did not respond
We have updated vRanger to the latest version (5.5) and we have a problem with the Quest Catalog Service. After i updated vRanger the catalog service didnt started.When i try to start the service i got...
View Articlecan't restore vm : Unable to match savepoint disk to existing VM disk
HI All, I get error "Unable to match savepoint disk to existing VM disk" if I try to restore one VM from incremental BackUp. It happens not by all VM's. here is a LOG:[2013-02-24 10:27:08.318]: vRanger...
View ArticlevCenter 5.1 and vRanger
Has anyone tested the new ESXi5.1 and vCenter 5.1 with the current vRanger 5.5? Thanks
View Article3201 & 3208 Errors during backups with vRanger Pro 5.0
I migrated the majority of my VM's from iSCSI to NFS datastores over the weekend. I ran backups Monday night with just one VM backup failing with a "the operation has timed out" message after it...
View ArticleError Message: 2355 - Configuration mismatch
Hello Together, we use vRanger 5.3.0 and always get this error on 2 of our machines (both are VMs on ESXi 4.1).Message: An internal error occurred during execution, please contact Quest support if the...
View ArticleError Message: 2654 - can't read vix... at io_size:125
Hi everybody, I've got one question with no answer from Quest Software... Here is my configuration : 2 x ESXi 5 with VMware Essential Plus Acceleration Kit1 x physical vRanger Server 5.2 with vCenter 5...
View ArticleCannot restore from manifest file (Check credentials)
Hello, This morning i try to restore a VM from manifest file but vRanger says "check credentials" when i browse from manifest path.The credentials i 've tried are goods ... I don't know what is the...
View Article6.01 - Snapshot creation *painfully* slow
Hello! Upgraded from 6.0 to 6.01 and for the first time I am able to do quiesced snapshots on my ESXi 5.1 hosts. This is great. However, I am noticing not only that these snapshots are slow, but that...
View ArticlevRanger 6.0.1 w/ vSphere 5.1 fails to consolidate VMs randomly
We run a vRanger 6.0.1 nightly job to back up approximately 180 VMs residing across 4 vSphere 5.1 hosts. Every morning there are several VMs in vCenter that show up with the "virtual machine disks...
View ArticlePowershell question
When a VM exist in a backup group and ithen deleted from Virltual Center it appears as disconnected from the backup group.Does anyone know how to remove disconnected VMs from a backup group using...
View ArticleWhen will vRanger support vSphere 5.1?
KB 96837: Does vRanger 5.4/5.5 and 6 support ESXi 5.1?New versions of ESXi/vSphere are usually supported within 60-90 days after its release. vSphere 5.1 was released september 11th so I really expect...
View ArticleRestoring to ESXI 5.1 not perfect?
I have found that restoring VMs using v6.0.0 to ESXi 5.1 works correctly except for one small glitch. When the restored VM is powered up the file svrname-xxxxxxxx.vswp now populates in the root of the...
View ArticleStarting Backup- and Restorejobs with a batch file
Hi there I searched for hours but found nothing... in ESX Ranger 3 we had all our backups started with batch jobs where we could change the filename of the backup to our liking and also start other...
View ArticlePre-freeze-script timeout setting?
Good day, We somewhat recently upgraded from vRanger 3.1 to 5.3, and we are really pleased with the new version. One funny thing though is that we are seeing a snapshot time out error, probably due to...
View ArticleEvent Logs?
Hi I'm actually really shocked that it has virtually no support for Event Logs, SNMP or anything... unfortunately I didn't spot this while testing, now I'm stuck with software that I cannot monitor!...
View ArticlevRanger v5.3.0.23489 Backup is Very Slow
I have started the upgrade of my VMware Infrastructure from ESX v4.1 Update 1 WITH the Service Console to ESX 5i (obviously with no Service Console). I wiped the system disks and loaded ESX 5i...
View Article6.01 - Snapshot creation *painfully* slow
Hello! Upgraded from 6.0 to 6.01 and for the first time I am able to do quiesced snapshots on my ESXi 5.1 hosts. This is great. However, I am noticing not only that these snapshots are slow, but that...
View Article6.0.1 - HotAdd mostly not working
Hi, This will be my first post since i used the products for the past few years. I got a problem with HotAdd at the moment, which doesn't seem to work correctly.From the 45 virtual machines we backup...
View Articlevranger hot add on different clusters
Hi guys a little help please: situation: CLUSTER1 -------------> VMFS1, VMFS2, VMFS3 -ESX1-ESX2 -ESX3 CLUSTER2 -------------> VMFS1, VMFS2, VMFS3-ESX4-ESX5-ESX6 As you can see each...
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