Veeam doesn't clean up temporary datastore in vSphere after restore from NetApp storage snapshot

Challenge After completing one of the restore options available for NetApp storage snapshot, you may notice that the temporary datastore under the name "snap--" is still mounted on the ESXi hosts with inactive status. See the screenshot below for an example: After a manual rescan of the storage...

How to restore vCenter Server without a vCenter Server

Challenge The vCenter Server is not available and the vCenter Server VM needs to be restored. Solution To restore the vCenter Server, you will need to add one of the individual ESXi hosts to Veeam Backup & Replication, allowing you to target that host directly to restore the vCenter VM. Possible...

Error "Unable to communicate with the remote host, since it is disconnected." with replication or restore

Article Applicability The error, "Unable to communicate with the remote host, since it is disconnected. " may occur for many reasons, some more straightforward than others. This article is specifically related to a more obscure scenario where the destination ESXi host runs a vSphere version that...

Unable to Mount VPower NFS Specified Key Name or Identifier Already Exists

Challenge During a Veeam vPower NFS-based operation SureBackup, Instant Recovery, Instant Disk Recovery, or Other-OS FLR, the following errors may occur: Unable to mount vPower NFS volume :/VeeamBackup. Fault "AlreadyExistsFault", Error The specified key, name, or identifier already exists. Unabl...

Performance Charts for vSphere Environment Display "No data available"

Challenge Veeam ONE Client shows the "No data available" message on performance charts for different metrics: Cause Here are the most common reasons for missing data on the performance charts: The Veeam ONE service account does not have Write access to the "PerfСache" folder. The account used by...

fault.RestrictedVersion.summary

Challenge Getting an error when running a SureBackup job: Unable to mount vPower NFS volume fault.RestrictedVersion.summary Failed to connect backup datastore to the ESX host "hostname".\n Unable to mount vPower NFS volume BACKUP1:/VeeamBackupBACKUP1. Backup1: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary\n...

SureBackup Performance Considerations

Purpose This article provides advice and information on understanding and improving SureBackup performance. Solution SureBackup Performance Considerations The Repository where the backup files are stored, and the Mount Server used by that Repository, should be in the same data center as the ESXi...

How to Test Manually Mounting the Veeam vPower NFS Datastore

Purpose This article documents manually mounting the vPower NFS Datastore using the vSphere Web Client. The steps of this article are only intended as a troubleshooting step to help investigate and isolate an issue with vPower NFS-based restores failing. Solution This article's solution is split...

VDDK Error 3 Troubleshooting

Challenge A Backup or Replication job fails with an error containing 'VDDK error: 3 ' This most often occurs when forcing aVMware Backup Proxy to use 'Virtual Appliance' transport mode and disabling the 'Failover to network mode' option. Cause The most common scenario is that the disks of the VM...