Gettin a vm to show up in dpm 2012 after moving host
Hello, I migrated a virtual machine to a new host a couple of days ago, and am trying to modify my protection group so that the vm will be backed up, its giving an error now of course since its still looking for the vm on the old server, however when i
go to modify the protection group and go to the new server where the vm has been moved to it doesnt show up in order to select it. I assume i have to refresh it somehow but unsure how to do this, could someone help me out thanks.
I believe DPM Agent was installed on the VM and DPM server was attached to the VM. In such a scenario movement of VM to a new host should not require any changes to the protection group.
Few things that you could verify -
New host should be routable on the network i.e. ensure that new host can ping DPM server and DPM server can ping the moved VM
Let me know if I am missing something
Regards
Samir
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</ExceptionDetails>
</FatalServiceError>
We have updated the dpm agents on all of the servers that we back up by installing the update on the servers manually and according to the data in the DPM database it has acknowledged that they are indeed updated.
From what I can tell from the errors is the console is attempting to read the updateprotectionstatus from the database and it is not returning a value and thus causing it to crash. but I have no clue as to where this might be in the database to even
check if it simply missing from an update gone wrong.
I did notice that the update attempted to install twice through windows update and failed. The update does show as installed under installed updates in programs and features control panel
Any help on this would be appreciated as it does make it difficult to manage our dpm serverHi,
See if this is relevant.
1. Take a DPMDB backup.
2. Open SQL Management studio and connect to the DPM instance.
3. Expand the DPM database and go to the table tbl_AM_Server.
4. Edit the table, and under the "ServerName" column check for the DPM server name. It should be the FQDN. If it is the NetBIOS name then change it to the FQDN.
5. Try re-opening the DPM console and navigate to the management tab and see if that works now.
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DPM 2012 R2 UR4 and BMR backup from physical 2008 R2 (DC, DNS, DHCP,WSUS, WDS)
Hi,
I'm completely lost.
We updated from DPM2010 (2008 R2) to DPM 2012 R2 RU4 (2012 R2).
Clean install. Same hardware. Everything went quite smoothly.
Our new (and also old did the same thing) DMP protects some Hyper-V guest on our 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster, one Exchange (2010) DB's and SQL 2008 R2 DB's and one physical server - 2008 R2 (DC, DNS, DHCP,WSUS, WDS ~160GB of data).
Currently we are using some Buffalo Terastation's III (TS-RIXL) iSCSI SAN storage to hold our DPM protected data.
Configured as RAID 5.
Our new DPM server is connected to those iSCSI devices using built in MS iSCSI initiator via secondary NIC on this server using dedicated iSCSI subnet.
Everything seems to be fine unitil System State and BMR (I'v checked both) runs.
Basically my iSCSI NIC shows Write about ~170Mbit/s and Read about 520Mbit/s when backing up virtual machines, Exchange or SQL.
When it comes to System State and BMR backup the trouhgput is MUCH slower (about 65Mbit/s) and I can not figure out why. I understand that the BMR backup initiates direct writing to the DPM created and shared replica volume on my iSCSI NAS (my wording
might be not correct but basically I understand how this works). But I don't understand why the speed is so much slower. I'v tried everything, googeled around, changed NIC drivers, firmware etc. No luck.
If I just copy some big ISO file from/to server to DPM or vice versa the speed is arount 100MB/s (as reported by windows itself). So it seems to able to utilize full network speed. But why this backup is so slow? I'm excpecting to see speed about ~170Mbit/s
because it corresponds my iSCSI Write speed as seen when backing up hyper-v guests and DB's..
What I'm doing wrong?
Any help is appreciated :)
rgds SvenHi Sven,
Sometimes BMR is slower than backing up virtual machines (VHDs). If there is a free local disk, please test to do a backup locally to see the speed. From your description a common backup works much faster so let's see if it is the backup speed which causes
the issue or not.
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DPM 2012 R2 cannot backup VM online
Hi Everyone,
I'm having a problem trying to backup a VM with DPM, as it shows "offline" backup only (not online).
Our environment:
DPM 2012 R2 server with UR5, running on Windows 2012 R2. This server backs up all Virtual Machines running on a Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster. All the VMs are running Windows 2008 R2, with the latest Hyper-V Integration Tool (v6.3.9600.16384).
Only a few VMs on that cluster cannot be backed up "online".
I already checked the following:
- The backup (volume snapshot) integration service is installed and enabled in the VM configuration
- The VM does not have any dynamic disks
- All Disks on the VM are NTFS
- The VM Cluster resource is online
- The VM is running
- The Shadow storage assignment inside the VM for all volumes are set on the respective volume (not different)
- The VM has a SCSI controller
- Although meant for another version of DPM and OS, I tried to add the following registry key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore - REG_DWORD ScopeSnapshots 0x0
(solution found here: https://mvanvliet.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/issue-windows-server-2012-virtual-machines-can-only-be-backed-up-using-saved-state/)
- Also tried to remove all VHDX from the VM configuration, save the config and re-add the VHDX
(solution found here: http://blog.metasplo.it/2014/02/dpm-2012-r2-only-allows-offline-backups.html)
- All the disks within the VM have plenty of free space (more than 30% on each volumes)
- Try to move the VM around on different hosts on the Hyper-V cluster
I've run out of troubleshooting steps...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
StephaneHello Stephane.
It seems that we have the same Problem.
Since we have installed the UR5 we have some VM’s that
can no more backed up Online. Last Sunday we had a crash on a host. After we
have investigated the issue we think it have to do with the Backup and the UR5.
We have found some errors where the host have lost the iscsi Target when the
Backup have begun.
We have 2 Infrastructures with the same configuration HP
Store Virtual and the Hardware VSS Provider. We can see that on the Storage no
Snapshots are created.
We try now to add (Workaround) a little Disk to this
Vm’s that is configured as DynamicDisk. So we hope to make an Offline backup.
I think we have to open a case.
Andreas -
DPM 2012 R2 UR2 and Windows 2003 SP2 Agent Version Issue
Hi All, I have UR2 installed on my DPM 2012 R2 server and have followed Mike's guide on getting them protected:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2014/06/11/details-on-protecting-windows-server-2003-computers-using-data-protection-manager-2012-r2.aspx
The agents now show in the DPM console but display as needing an update and showing as agent version 4.1.3313.0 instead of 4.1.3441.0, which is odd.
Servers have:
.Net 3.5 Sp1 Full
Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.17
From the DPM server:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\DPM\DPM\agents\RA\4.2.1235.0\i386\1033\DPMAgentInstaller_Win2K3_i386.exe
Executed:
setdpmserver.exe -dpmservername DPMserverName
From the DPM server:
Attach-ProductionServer.ps1 script on the DPM server and refreshed twice
What have I missed?Hi.
Reboot your 2003 Server
Run DPM Setup again on Server 2003
Run setdpmserver.exe again
click refresh in DPM Server
worked for me
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