Avamar Client for VMware

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Dell Avamar Data Store Gen5A remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

Knowledge base (KB) article that provides steps for troubleshooting Avamar backup failures to Data Domain.

Exchange backup failing with "Windows structured exception ACCESS_VIOLATION" due to inability to run Consistency Check.

Knowledgebase (KB) article that provides workarounds for Avamar cluster registration failures.

Instructions to enable Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) on Isilon OneFS.

This article explains how to manage the Avamar Session Security settings by using the Avinstaller installation package (AVP).

Avamar may display a degraded GSAN status and a Synchronizing state in the mccli server show-prop command due to high metadata utilization, typically exceeding 90%. This issue can arise from incorrect backups, replication to the GSAN, or other factors. To resolve this, follow the steps outlined in Dell internal article 000047627, which detail how to reduce metadata capacity and eliminate the Synchronizing state. After completing these steps, the mccli server show-prop command should display Full Access in the State attribute.

This article explains a behavior when using Avamar User Interface (AUI) to check exception jobs and it returns an empty result.

Linux client avagent is unresponsive or does not start after plug-in upgrade.

The Avamar Management Console (MC) has a bug where editing a schedule results in an error message: “The start date cannot be past date,” even when selecting a valid date.

Avamar VM Image backups are failing with error 10026.

Some or all proxies failing to check-in with MCS. VMware image backups may fail or may run on a limited number of proxies.

Avamar: Deploying proxies using Proxy Deployment Manager fails, "Error deploying proxy"

Backup validation completes with exception with the following error: "ABV failed".

Intermittent virtual machine (VM) image backup failure with error "vSphere Task failed (snapshot error=45): There are two usable fault domains. The operation requires one more usable fault domain" when the VxRail appliance manages the vCenter.

Data Domain shows Unresponsive due to an expired DD Boost account password.

After mounting successfully with Avamar, restoring the entire SharePoint site to a subsite using ItemPoint fails.

After the Avamar server is upgraded or the certificates are renewed, replications will not start, an error message prompts with code 30978 and stating "Failed to initiate replication because no proxy was found to service the job." in the description.

This article shows a cosmetic issue where the Avamar User Interface (AUI) dashboard shows the Data Domain capacity value as GB instead of gibibyte.

After applying 19.9 Management Console Server (MCS) hotfix 338748, it is taking a lot of time to retrieve the backups, and sometimes it is timed out.

This article explains how to resolve the issue when Virtual Machine (VM) image backup fails with the error "Duplicate VM targets"

This article describes the procedure to configure an additional on Avamar proxy after deployment.

This article addresses an issue where the Data Domain does not appear in the Avamar User Interface (UI) or the Avamar Administrator console. This issue persists even after restarting the Management Console Service (MCS) and using the command-line interface (CLI) with mcddrsnmp.

This article explains the client registration failure after Avamar IP change on DP4400, preventing backup and restore operations.

This article discusses when enabling Data Domain retention lock in governance mode on Avamar 19.10 causes VMware image backups to fail due to insufficient privileges.

This article shows how to start the Management Console Server (MCS) by addressing an existing hostname configuration issue on the Avamar.

This article shows how to manage the Avamar Session Security settings from the command-line tool.

How to receive Dell Technical Advisories (DTA) and Dell Security Advisories (DSA).