VDR 1.02 - How is it doing?

[Stevester]

Good Day Everyone,

I have noticed that VMWare has released a new verison of VDR, VDR 1.02. So can anyone give their experiences on it. Is it an improvement or still no better than the previous verison?

Thanks

Stevester

[AndreTheGiant]

Seems a little stable and faster then old versions.

Read carefully the release note, cause upgrade is not so simple (the are several steps to do).

Andre

[winshenting]

Is there any manual about how to update VDR from 1.0.1 from 1.2

[admin]

It is covered in the release notes for 1.0.2

http://www.vmware.com/support/vdr/doc/vdr_102_releasenotes.html

[Stevester]

I am starting to think VMWare may need to completely revamp VDR. Maybe outsource some help to rebuild it from scrath.

[dustinn3]

I had my fingers crossed but after 3 days I started getting -3902 file access errors and after a reboot my integrity check is at a blazing 7% after 12 hours.

[Stevester]

Yea its time to start over from scrath for VMWare with a new data duplication product.

[dustinn3]

The integrity check ran for 14 hours but it seems to be working again. Support said there is a communication problem between VDR and vcenter that will be fixed in a new release, but to reboot the appliance every few days until then.

[abbasi]

It was working fine until it did a integrity check, no it no longer works

[CEVI-Rik]

Lost all backupjobs; formatted destinations and started over.

Someone experience with the CIFS shares destinations ? Does it work with the shares created in W2008 ? ( actually SMB)