I found an interesting issue over the last 24 hours with the GLR functionality for VMWare proxy backups in the Administrative GUI.
1. Full VM and VMDK restores work from any combination of the platrforms in use (Windows 7 - 64bit, XP - 32bit, Server 2k3 -64bit, and MAC OSX10.7)
2. GLR - individual file restores from an AVFS presentation of the VMDK backup to a proxy work from clients running the Admin GUI on XP - 32bit and Server 2k3 - 64bit
3. GLR browse fails from Windows 7 - 64bit and MAC OSX 10.7 clients with the following error "The VMDK filename is not valid or present. Verify that the proxy was correctly registered using the supported method in the documentation."
So - my question is, Is this a Admin GUI compatibility issue or Java issue and how can I get this to work on Windows 7?
I have an SR opened that I need to update with this new discovery, but I thought I would put this out to the community....
Do you have multiple vCenters registered to the MCS, this error may appear if mcs is selecting a flr proxy which is located on a different vCenter than the source VM of the backup.
Did you get feedback on your SR? We experience exactly the same problem. And as we have only one vcenter it can not be the issue Sandeep mentions.........
No, the proxys are all registered correctly. The issue is the Avamar Administrator interface works correctly (i.e. proxy backups are browseable) when run from a laptop/vm/server/etc running Windows XP, but it fails to browse when running from a machine running Windows 7. This is an interface problem.
Sandeep_Sinha
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Posted June 4th, 2012 11:00
Hello,
Do you have multiple vCenters registered to the MCS, this error may appear if mcs is selecting a flr proxy which is located on a different vCenter than the source VM of the backup.