• Failback Without Second Core

    My team is trying to test failover of production systems for a customer. They have five Windows server VMs on an ESXi host that each have a virtual standby on another ESXi host, but only one Core. There is a SQL server and an Exchange server involved…

  • A WARNING Regarding credentials used to create Virtual Standby in 6.4: If you change the password, you must delete the Virtual Standby AND the target VM, then re-create.

    I am writing this merely so that it gets put on the Radar and is an issue that I ran into during the activation of a Virtual Standby clone of a production machine.

    If the credentials you are using to manage your virtual standby targets change, you may…

  • Virtual standby sync status

    We have two physical servers that host the virtual standbys for all our virtual servers.
    This works great.
    But how do i know if they are in sync ?

    For an example.
    Yesterday a export failed.
    I found the problem and forced a export and everything looked okey…

  • Can't start the windows 2008 R2 in virtual machine and BMR

    windows 2008 r2 server was protected by Quest, But suddenly the Windows 2008 r2 server had a HDD issue  and it is down now. Hence, we tried to create one-time export as virtual machine, the export was successful but it failed to boot on windows 2016 server…

  • VDDK error: VDDK Handle is invalid. This can be due to VDDK API proxy restart

    Hi guys,

    Once again I need your help. For a few years now I create virtual standby's of 2 servers just to be extra safe and up until recently the exports ran just fine. In the past, if I got this error I would delete and recreate the Virtual Standby Job…

  • Virtual standby to ESXi 6 host failed -

    I recently moved from using the agent to an agentless deployment (yep, archived all my old recovery points first!), and have run into a few hiccups on the way.  The initial backups all work well, replication works well, but the virtual standby's that I…