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Information about customer replaceable unit (CRU) videos for Dell Technologies ECS products
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000262239

This document highlights minimum, recommended, and latest code versions for Dell Technologies Enterprise and Data Center Infrastructure products. Dell carefully evaluates and monitors code deployment data to ensure that product releases meet our stringent expectations to provide our customers with reliable products and solutions.
Updated:  September 21, 2026 ID: 000502480

Backups complete without errors but some VMs are omitted because their names differ between Failover Cluster Manager and Hyper‑V Manager, causing the plug‑in to skip them.
Updated:  September 25, 2026 ID: 000064606

Backups of Hyper‑V virtual machines fail with VSS writer errors, showing the “Writers are in nontransient state” message. The issue occurs because the guest VMs cannot create an application‑consistent snapshot.
Updated:  September 25, 2026 ID: 000052691

Hourly avsql incremental backups take over an hour because large backup label numbers cause long metadata queries and a software defect, leading to extended wait times.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000065554

Welcome to the Avamar Data Migration enabler (ADMe) landing page.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000182609

SQL Cluster incremental backups fail due to a log gap caused by missing sqlmeta.xml, preventing backup metadata reconstruction.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000057398

Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) completes successfully but the restored Windows client fails to boot due to an exclusion that removes required BCD data, causing boot errors.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000199170

Registration of Hyper-V or Exchange DAG clients to the Avamar grid can fail due to insufficient Active Directory permissions for creating computer objects, resulting in error messages such as 5054 and Event ID 1194.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000047547

Registration of an Avamar client can fail when the client already exists in a different Avamar domain or shares a hostname/FQDN with another client, causing a registration error.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000162834

SharePoint backups fail with “Unable to connect to the back‑end client” due to firewall blocks on ports 28002/30002 and delayed VSS snapshot generation on backend servers.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000046209

Restore operations using autobackup can be extremely slow and fail because Avamar processes over 255 minute‑long queries, leading to the “No backups with a label matching ''” error.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000041592

Windows Shadow Copy Service (VSS) backups fail with error 0x80070005 “Access is denied” and client allocation errors because avagent runs under an NT domain account lacking VSS and SQL sysadmin rights.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000025623

Avamar Oracle backup fails with "exceeded limit of 0 corrupt blocks for file" error due to corrupt data blocks in the database file, as confirmed by running SQL [Structured Query Language] command to select from V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION view.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000054350

Backups finish but report avtar errors 5137, 5244 and 12516 because Backup Exec terminates the Volume Shadow Copy used by Avamar.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000064795

SQL restore fails because the Backup Agent service account lacks sysadmin or dbcreator role in SQL Server, resulting in a CREATE DATABASE permission denied error.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000063065

A command-line SQL backup completes successfully and is restorable, but the Avamar Administrator GUI Activity window displays “No DD” because the backup is being sent to a Data Domain system.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000063024

The silent Avamar client install always ends up in C:\Program Files\avs, even when run from another location, because the msiexec command lacks the undocumented PRODINSTALLDIR flag.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000063829

Avamar SQL backups fail with avsql Error 40258 reporting the SQL WMI provider is unavailable; this occurs because avagent runs under a domain user account instead of local SYSTEM, lacks sysadmin role.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000052980

Exchange backup jobs show avexvss errors because the server’s clock is unsynchronized with the Active Directory domain controller or NTP source, causing Kerberos authentication to fail.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000053910

The Avamar Hyper‑V VSS plug‑in logs Error 0000 because it cannot obtain the current Hyper‑V node name. The cause is the –federated flag present in avhypervvss.cmd.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000064532

An Avamar Gen4S node is reporting power replated issues - Symptom Code 52602 - MIN BMC Power Unit #0n Pwr Unit Redund Not Redundant.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000054612

Checkpoint fails with result MSG_ERR_EXCEPTION, and the UNIX exception "Too many links" error occur due to File System Corruption.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000052399

When adding a Data Domain 6.1 or higher, fails with error: "Failed to get ddrid. Username or password is incorrect" due to nfsv4 service disabled.
Updated:  September 24, 2026 ID: 000041979

This article explains how to restore SQL Server 2016 databases backed up by Avamar 19.4.100-124 to a secondary replica in an AlwaysOn availability group and resolve join failures.
Updated:  September 22, 2026 ID: 000206971

Backup of an Avamar SQL Always On Secondary Replica fails due to disk‑space exhaustion on the SQL Server, causing Avtar/AvSQL processes to hang and generate error 10007.
Updated:  September 22, 2026 ID: 000173833

In an integrated environment, the cloud tier policy is not marking daily backups for the cloud due to identical expiration and age threshold settings.
Updated:  September 22, 2026 ID: 000064741

How to gather logs and information to investigate Avamar Administrator console (MC UI) issues
Updated:  September 22, 2026 ID: 000038388

How to list the IP addresses of all nodes within an Avamar grid.
Updated:  September 22, 2026 ID: 000014008

This article aims to provide documentation about the supported scenarios of cloud tier deployments.
Updated:  September 22, 2026 ID: 000010356