Noisy SCOM alerts when Offline backup a Hyper-V VM
Dear Forum Members,I would ask you the following question, maybe there are some experienced users who have already seen this problem :/ The issue is that we back up a lot of VMs on Hyper-V via DPM...
View ArticleBackup of Hyper-V guest with more than one virtual disks failes with SCDPM...
Hello,We have moved guests from 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster to the 2012R2 Hyper-V cluster. All guests were backed up with SCDPM2010 perfectly. Now we try to backup with SCDPM 2012R2 and some guests backup...
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Hello,I noticed that I have a few servers that are protected offline.I have tried the suggestions on this site: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh757970.aspxBy default, DPM backs up virtual...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica and DPM Backup within VM at the same time
Hi,we are planning to use Hyper-V replica for some workloads.At the Moment we do not do VM Backups with DPM but just backup ressources within the VM.DPM Agent is installed within the VM.When Hyper-V...
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2 cannot browse the contents of the virtual machine, Error 958,...
Hi,We have a Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager Version 4.2.1235.0 as a Guest system on a Hyper-V node. The Hyper-V role is on a Windows Server 2012 R2I receive this error...
View ArticleDPM Fatal Error 902
HiI am running DPM 2012 R2 UR4 in production environment. Protecting 7 non-clustered Hyper-V hosts with around 60 VMs on top.DPM repeatedly crashes with error 902 just after the start of consistency...
View ArticleSeveral questions around SCDPM...
Hi Forum,After reading the MS SCDPM 2012 supported and un-supported scenarios list....I have a few questions:1) Section: SharePoint protection issues Statement: AlwaysOn not supported...
View ArticleDPM backup replica instead of original VM
Hello,I have this situation:1. Several standalone (no cluster) production Hyper-V server with VM's on it. Lets call them original VM's. 2. Backup server, with Hyper-V role on it. One VM on this server...
View ArticleSystem Center 2012 R2 DPM - Recover the datasource using the alternate...
Unable to recover a protected virtual machine to a Hyper-V 2012 R2 cluster using the System Center 2012 R2 DPM "Restore the VM to the original host or cluster" option. The recovery fails with the...
View ArticleBackup of VM fails after enabling replica..
Hi,I have hyper-v failover cluster running on 2012 R2, and using DPM 2012 R2 to protects the vm's.When i enabling the vm to replicate to another host, that use a nas to Storage. The backup of the...
View ArticleHow to get DPM 2012 R2 to backup any 2012 R2 Hyper-V VM with Replication...
I have recently created new 2012 R2 server with DPM 2012 R2 in attempts to upgrade an environment.When attempting to create Protection Groups for Hyper-V VM, DPM will consistently omit any VM that...
View ArticleVirtual Machines Backups (Full and Incremental - Every 1 week with 4 weeks of...
Hi,How DPM (2012 SP1 or R2) works when I have the following scenario, backing virtual machines up:- Backup Weekly- Retention period: 4 WeeksFirst week - The backup is a Full backupSecond week - Backup...
View ArticleHardware Providers with DPM 2012 R2 and Hyper-V 2012 R2?
With the changes to how DPM 2012 R2 and Hyper-V 2012 R2 makes an "online" backup, are hardware VSS providers necessary anymore? Or is there a benefit to disabling them on the 2012 R2 hosts? We are...
View ArticleBackup VM Online failed
Hello,I currently have the problem that my DPM Backup of 2 of my VMs is not working.The VM is a 2008 R2 and the Hyper-V is a 2012R2. The newest Integration tools are already installed. DPM is a 2012 R2...
View ArticleDPM Saved State Limitation
DPM cannot backup a VM in snapshot/online mode if that VM has a volume that has VSS enabled and it set to store those snapshots on a different volume. 1. Is this a limitation of DPM or the HyperV VSS...
View Articletips for maximizing Hyper-V backup throughput from SAN-based CSV
Environment:Eight node Windows Server 2012 SP1 cluster.Dell/EquiLogic iSCSI shared storage. Hardware VSS/VDS providers not installed10Gbps data and iSCSI-segregated networksDPM 2012 R2 on one of the...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster Hosts BMR Backups take over 12 hours
Hello, We are using 2012 R2 DC to create a Hyper-V 2 node cluster. The backup is DPM 2012 R2 running on 2012 R2 DC. The DPM system was upgraded to 2012 R2 from DPM 2010 about a year ago and has...
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2 UR3 HV backup behaivor
Hi,I have a dedicated DPM 2012 R2 UR3 to backup VMs located in HV 2012 Cluster using Software VSS.I have added a Backup NIC card on each HV host and connect them to a dedicated Switch where the DPM...
View ArticleDPM back-end IO write size of 64KB... and page file usage...
Hi,1a) I have been informed that the disk (DPM storage LUN) IO payload size (disk data transfer block size) (i.e. whilst reading/writing the VSS snapshots) is 64KB for both reads and writes.1b) Or have...
View ArticleDPM 2012 SP1 Beta - Causing Server 2012 Hyper-V Cluster hang / ISCSI problems
Hi All,First of all, I know it's a beta and these are the perils of being an early adopter, but I've got a serious problem.I've upgraded our production Hyper-V cluster to Server 2012. The setup is a 4...
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