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This document highlights minimum, recommended, and latest code versions for Dell Technologies Enterprise and Datacenter Infrastructure products. We carefully evaluate and monitor code deployment data to ensure that product releases meet our stringent expectations to provide our customers with reliable products and solutions.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000205512

Data Domain Capacity Resolution Path.
Updated:  January 21, 2026 ID: 000192662

This is a resolution path article for troubleshooting Garbage Collection (GC) Failures.
Updated:  February 05, 2026 ID: 000037107

An Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) backup reports a consolidation failure on the Avamar server, marking it hidden. Caused by wrap-up timing out after one hour due to many avtar sessions
Updated:  February 05, 2026 ID: 000078749

This article describes how to disable EmailHome and DialHome Avamar email notifications.
Updated:  February 03, 2026 ID: 000013900

An Avamar backup requires a directory structure backup without files, due to specific conditions, excluding files within directories.
Updated:  February 03, 2026 ID: 000019167

This article explains how to check if Avamar is configured with root-to-root replication.
Updated:  February 03, 2026 ID: 000020043

Avamar Rman Plugin CLI backup completes successfully but there are errors in the avtar log like "Error <5183>: No backups with a label matching '' or backuptag '<backup_piece>' or labelnum 0 were found.
Updated:  February 03, 2026 ID: 000065431

Knowledge base (KB) article that provides a workaround for Avamar cluster registration failure due to federated key error.
Updated:  February 03, 2026 ID: 000034882

This article explains how to address an error that prevents an Exchange Granular Level Restore (GLR) operation with Avamar.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000057496

This article describes an issue when adding or editing Data Domain on an Avamar server and how to fix it.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000299224

During a power outage, when Avamar is started with the dpnctl start command it can fail with "Not all DD are running normally. Forbiding to rollback automatically."
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000219440

This Article describes methods for identifying and treating problems related to the media database, as well as best practices for maintenance and protection.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000223518

During the installation of a hotfix, the workflow immediately stops at Task 1 due to a permission problem in the emc-ruby package.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000212362

Avamar backup fails with errors: invalid Data Domain Replicator (DDR) token, missing ddr_files.xml, and server connection failure. Logs show the ddrmaint-service is down, causing authentication problems.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000043952

The purpose of this article is to explain a method to move backups from one Data Domain to another Data Domain within the same Avamar server.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000420816

Avamar Virtual Machine (VM) image restore fails with code 158 and IMG2012. Encryption mode is left at default while backup used High strength. Set encryption strength to High on Avamar and on DD (More Options) to resolve.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000069283

Avamar image backups fail. Error: NBD network connects Failed to open vpxa-nfc URL. Connection uses port 902. Cause: network. Proxy to ESXi network. Capture Tcpdump on proxy. Capture Tcpdump on ESXi. See VMware KB 1031186. It details ESXi steps.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000169561

The Management Console Server (MCS) acts as a single point of user interface and as a Broker agent between the clients and the GSAN. This article provides an overview of how to start or restart the service.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000021353

This Metadata Capacity Resolution Path article can be used as an initial starting point for Metadata Capacity issues.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000164276

This knowledge article provides solutions for resolving Hyper-V checkpoint creation errors for virtual machine (VM) backup failures.
Updated:  February 02, 2026 ID: 000200285

PowerProtect Data Manager ServerDR backup fails because NFSv3 is not Enabled.
Updated:  January 30, 2026 ID: 000305777

Avamar Data Migration Enabler (ADMe) job fails during the Staging Phase when ADMe attempts to recapture the stat file (avtarres1.stat) after a restore operation. ADMe cannot parse or access the stat file, causing the migration workflow to stop.
Updated:  January 30, 2026 ID: 000198264

This Knowledge Base (KB) article aims to provide a matrix to show which DDboost version comes embedded with which Avamar version.
Updated:  January 29, 2026 ID: 000022340

Knowledge base (KB) article that provides a workaround for backup failure due to large access control lists (ACLs).
Updated:  January 29, 2026 ID: 000044656

Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup errors (such as, NDMP_CONNECT_ERR) can be Caused by wrong IP/hostname in ndmp.cfg, NDMP disabled, ndmp password changed, or encoding mismatch (md5 vs text). To resolve, fix IP/DNS, NDMP, and rerun avsetupndmp.
Updated:  January 28, 2026 ID: 000163601

This article provides steps to resolve SQL backup failures in Avamar when the Database Consistency Check option is enabled. The consistency check process can impact backup duration, leading to timeouts, especially for incremental backups.
Updated:  January 28, 2026 ID: 000167096

Dell EMC Avamar image backup fails with error “Insufficient permissions in the host operating system” (error 3014) because VMware vCenter Server cannot authenticate the backup account.
Updated:  January 27, 2026 ID: 000079519

Avamar Oracle RMAN backups fail with RMAN‑00571 and ORA‑01034 ORA‑27101 errors because the SMON‑reported database name does not match the name in the Avamar dataset.
Updated:  January 27, 2026 ID: 000166152

This article describes how to skip drives, folders, or files for each client in Avamar by using an avtar.cmd file.
Updated:  January 27, 2026 ID: 000156571