OpenStack Data Protection Extension

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This article contains information about customer replaceable unit (CRU) videos for Dell Technologies VNX and VNXe products.

This knowledge article provides instructions for disabling user profile gathering during Windows backups.

Avamar Checkpoint backups (cpbackup) to Data Domain failing when Avamar dispatchers are suspended.

This knowledge article references the media errors on the physical disks in the Avamar Data Store Gen4T nodes, and how to address them.

This article provides the resolution for the SSD Symptom Code 52617: <MRMON113> Controller ID: 0 Unexpected sense: PD = Port 0 - 3:2:12Write protected

After upgrading to Avamar 18.1/18.2/19.1 vCenter VPXD service is constantly crashing. Memory is being exhausted on the vCenter.

Hyper-V backups using Avamar may fail when the Avamar Windows Cluster Service cannot retrieve clustered virtual machines. This issue often occurs in multi-proxy configurations or when cluster resources are misconfigured.

How to address an Avamar root-to-root (R2$) replication that reports "Exit code 15: Cannot connect to Avamar dispatcher" due to mismatched passwords.

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.

Avamar – proactive check advises a new default setting of disknogc=89

Root to root migration (R2R) or standard replication jobs fails when a domain user has a mismatched or missing password.

This article describes a packet loss issue observed when Avamar Data Store nodes configured with Linux active-backup network bonding are connected to Cisco Catalyst switches. The behavior may also occur with other switch models. The issue is caused by the switch’s MAC address learning behavior most likely related to the control‑packet learning feature not correctly handling the MAC address assignment used by Linux bonding, resulting in intermittent traffic loss.

This article provides the instructions to perform after changing the GSAN root password if axionfs reports errors.

VMware backup failed when there is a manual snapshot. The Virtual Machine (VM) shows that it needs consolidation but failed.

This article describes why it is not possible to list clients in the Avamar User Interface (AUI).

Avamar replication runs on retired clients with 0 progress bytes.

This article describes an issue during VMware image client import where the virtual machine is not added due to an inconsistency between GSAN and MCDB.

This knowledge article provides solutions for resolving Hyper-V checkpoint creation errors for virtual machine (VM) backup failures.

Avamar backups to Data Domain fail with error 5005, DDR result code: 1, desc: no room left. The issue occurs when the Data Domain disk staging area is not configured or is disabled, causing Avamar to fail while creating the required staging directory.

Avamar Windows Client (WC) and Non‑Windows Client (NC) backups fail when connecting to Data Domain systems running DD OS 7.2.0.40-664052 or later. The issue affects Avamar 19.3.100-149 clients and results in connection failures either at backup start or during backup execution.

Booting from the Avamar Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) ISO stops responding at the Windows logo. This issue has been observed on servers with AMD processors.

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.

PDM fails to create recommendation after installing OSRollup.

This Resolution Path article can be used as a starting point for all Avamar Capacity issues.

This article addresses high capacity on Data Domain in an Avamar Integrated environment.

The Avamar Management Console Server (MCS) fails with the message "Failed to connect to Administrator Server. Connection refused to host" due to the MCS service being down.

In an Avamar environment integrated with Data Domain, replication is completing with exceptions due to an "Out of streams" error.

This KB article provides access to Avamar 19.1 guides.

This article explains how an incorrect command in avsetup_snmpv3_user.sh prevents SNMPv3 user creation in Avamar and how stopping snmpd before running the script resolves it.