Category Archives: Data Protection

vSphere Data Protection Advanced (VDPA) - included in Essentials+ license or higher!

As I mentioned in post about  what’s new in vSphere 6.0, VMware announced that vSphere Data Protection Advanced  will be included in Essentials+ or higher vSphere license! The features of VDPA are as follows: Scale up to 8Tb of deduplication (variable-length and global per appliance) storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. Support for up to… Read More »

NetBackup OpsCenter upgrade fails or unable to be uninstalled.

NetBackup OpsCenter Analitycs is a useful software to manage NetBackup domains. As a part of NetBackup upgrade project, I needed to do an upgrade of OpsCenter server from 7.5.0.7 to 7.6.0.1 version. Unfortunately, during the upgrading of NetBackup OpsCenter  I faced the following errors: 12-15-2014,15:38:14 : [INSTALL_WARNING] SRVRCustAct[Exit]::ExecutePreDbUpgrade Failed 12-15-2014,15:38:14 : [INSTALL_FAIL] OpsCenter database upgrade… Read More »