Restoring with vRanger is no fun ! Please comment
Hello, i've restored two VMs with windows Server 2008 R2.On both VMs the virtual disks was in the wrong order !!I had to search after the right order of the VMDKS in the VM BIOS to make the restored VM...
View ArticleUnable to backup vCenter VM with vRanger 6.0.1
Hello Quest Community, since the upgrade from vRanger 5.5 I am unable to backup my vCenter VM. I am using vCenter and ESXi 5.1. vRanger is installed on a hardware machine wich iSCSI connection. Any...
View ArticleError Message: The operation has timed out
We've been having trouble with vRanger since version 3 as some of the backup jobs would fail. Fortunately that only happened once or twice a month so it wasn't a big problem. But after upgrading from 5...
View ArticleError When Doing Full Backup
I did a full backup of a test VM the other night and it worked great and I was able to restore it. I tried one of our production servers next and I got the below email when it failed. I'm not sure if...
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 ArticleJob market as Expired in "sheduled job windows"
Hello all, I have a job marked as expired in Sheduled Jobs Windows, but I see no reason for this as it is configured to never expire. You can see in the attachment de "Recurrence Shedule Retention" for...
View ArticleESXi, snapshots, and shadows of the past.
What to be aware when you move from ESX to ESXi. With more customers moving their infrastructure from ESX to ESXi (including version vSphere 5) I would like to cover one topic related to this upgrade.I...
View ArticleRandom Replication Failures
Hi Everyone I have a problem with vRanger Pro and some replication jobs failing intermittently. My setup is this: Two ESX 4.1 servers connected to a vCenter machine (Windows 2008r2) vRanger Pro...
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Error 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 ArticleThe database trasaction was rolled back.
Hello Our vRanger 5.3 is backing up multiple VMs on multiple hosts without problems. Only one Linux VM on an ESXi 5.0 fails every time. The messages in the log are: [2012-02-22 09:10:49.425]: Gathering...
View Articleslow vranger backup throughput rate on one esx server
Hello, I'm running vRanger Backups for years now. since roughly 7 days I see, serious issues when backups are processed for all VMs running on one certain host. The throughputrate ist only 1 MB per...
View ArticleWhere is data flowing on restore in 5 with ESX and ESXi Network/Lan Free/DTT
Can somone tell me on when using the option of "Use fiber or ISCSI" is checked in the job settings. Were the data is flowing when you do a full vmdk restore and where the data flows when you do a file...
View ArticleError Message: 2129 - can't write...
We are regulalry seeing this failure message and once it hits then all following backups fail (obviously). I'm guessing it's associated with the metadata.exe processes being stuck as I can guarantee I...
View ArticleAPI Call failed with message: The device or operation specified at index '9'...
Hello, i am evaluating vRanger. During this i tried to replicate a Linux-Gentoo VM. After some time after start of the replication i get the following error message: An internal error occurred during...
View ArticleUpgrade to 6.0.2, Catalog database failed to install - Reason: -1
Hi, I have just gone through and tried to upgrade from 5.0 to 6.0.2 and got the error of "Catalog database failed to install - Reason: -1" when trying to install/upgrade the catalogue DB. Everything...
View ArticleBackup Problems after system move
Hi Folks , i've moved a system from one Host to another. Wehn i now try to Backup the machine i got following Message : Job Name: On Demand ServernameHost/VM Name: ServernameResult: No action was taken...
View ArticleIs Vranger Pro 4.5.3 supoported in Vsphere 5
Is Vranger Pro 4.5.3 supoported in Vsphere 5
View ArticleThe database trasaction was rolled back.
Hello Our vRanger 5.3 is backing up multiple VMs on multiple hosts without problems. Only one Linux VM on an ESXi 5.0 fails every time. The messages in the log are: [2012-02-22 09:10:49.425]: Gathering...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 U1 and vRanger\vReplicator 6 Scratch Disk issues
I just update vRanger\vReplicator to 6.0 and the virtual appliances to 1.8. However, when I try any replication, I get the following error: "The virtual appliance "VzVa" has not been configured with a...
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6.01 - 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...
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