Avamar Client for VMware

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.

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.

Avamar Symptom Code 22409 - A checkpoint validation (aka "hfscheck") is overdue due to Incorrect mcserver.xml permissions.

Boosting Backup Replication Efficiency using pool replication flags.

How to understand the output generated by the Avamar cplist command.

The purpose of this article is to describe how to enable debug mode for the log (ddrmaint.log) on the Avamar Utility Node for troubleshooting purposes.

Incorrect permissions on the ddr_key file cause issues when attempting to add or edit a Data Domain in the UI.

This knowledgebase article provides an answer to the question that often comes to mind while reviewing network configuration: Does Avamar Data Store support Jumbo frames with Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of 9000?

Proxy Deployment Manager failed to create recommendations reporting "fault.com.emc.avamar.vmware.vcs.deploymanager.internal_error_fault.summary".  No new deployment manager logs generated since VCS logs were set with the wrong permissions.

This knowledge article provides instructions for upgrading the Embedded Service Enabler (ESE) service on Avamar.

After upgrading to or deploying Avamar 19.10, backup listing is taking extended time or timing out.

This article describes Avamar connectivity to the Dell backend.

This article shows how to manage the Avamar SSH timeout.

This article describes what Session Security is on Avamar, how it works, and how to manage it.

When Session Security is enabled on Avamar, certificates must sync between Avamar and Data Domain. This requires the SCP protocol to be enabled on Data Domain.

This article explains how to use the GoAV dd check-ssl feature to resolve SSL connectivity issues between Avamar and Data Domain.

Loading Avamar Client Manager (/aam) webpage hangs on login. The login may never finish or take tens of minutes to complete.

This article addresses an issue with the Avamar user interface (AUI) and Avamar Management Console database (MCDB) regarding a column value in the retention_policies table.

The Dell Data Protection Extension is the first certificated data protection solution for VMware vCloud Director, which is also a native data protection solution. It extends the vCloud Director HTML 5 UI and REST API providing tenants a single management end-point for their virtual datacenters. Tenants can manage image level backups of VMs and vApps, restore to a new VM or in-place, by policy or adhoc, even file level restore.

Backup and replication jobs cannot be run for the same client simultaneously when the "send-adhoc-request=false" flag is used.

This article explains the different parameters available for the MCS proxy selection algorithm for VM Image backups.

Virtual machine (VM) backup fails with error message: "Failed to open 'vpxa-nfcssl://[<Datastore_Name>] <VM_Name>/<VM_Name>.vmdk@<esx_name>:902' with flags 0x1e NBD_ERR_NETWORK_CONNECT (2338)"

Avamar File Level Recovery (FLR) fails when trying to restore a path with more than 165 characters with error “avvmwfile Error <0000>: File name too long”

This article explains how to use the 'goav client bmr' command set.

The recommendation process finishes, yet the ESXi hosts and already‑deployed Avamar proxies are absent from the view. This is caused by a software defect in the topology manager WAR file.

Avamar: The "Metadata Utilization" value rises but never falls.

The Avamar backup scheduler cannot be started once the grid has reached the capacity "health check limit".

This article addresses the question about the removal of the Avamar MCUser account.

How to reset or regenerate certificates due to expiration (or misconfiguration).

This article describes an issue where the Avamar Administrator console (Java GUI) displays the incorrect time when the client system is configured to use a Mexico time zone. The displayed time appears one hour ahead of the actual local time.