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Permalink Reply by Jerry Schmidt on March 11, 2015 at 6:37am

Hello Bhautik Shah,

vmPRO can be used with tape, but only in association with Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format. Please see the document enclosed for more information.

Seeing that de-duplication is driven by the target storage and not by vmPRO you should be able to point vmPRO to use an iscsi target storage as long as the iscsi target storage can host a CIFS or NFS share.

Attachments:

• Quantum vmPRO and LTFS Solution Brief [SB00086A].pdf, 306 KB

Permalink Reply by BHAUTIK SHAH on March 12, 2015 at 6:08am

Yes ,

I Have deploy FreeNas and mount scsi with windows machine , add in storage with iscsi storage.

When i am doing backup it will gives me an error.

Permalink Reply by Jerry Schmidt on March 12, 2015 at 6:52am

Is the error coming from vmPRO? If so what is the error you are receiving?

Permalink Reply by BHAUTIK SHAH on March 14, 2015 at 12:33am

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for your reply.

please find the below error log.

VM Name	Status	Size	Elapsed Time	Type	Start Time	End Time	Error
/export/vmbackup_test/VMBackup_Test	failed	8.44 KB	1 minute 33 seconds	full	14 Mar 12:57:13	14 Mar 12:58:46	Error in copying file '/export/vmbackup_test/VMBackup_Test/VMBackup_Test-flat.vmdk': Space usage of datastore 'datastore1' (uuid 5162efd7-fd91422a-fd85-eca86b75b765), VM 'VMBackup_Test', has exceeded the threshold 80%.. Return code: 1021

Permalink Reply by Jerry Schmidt on March 16, 2015 at 9:26am

This is telling you that the target storage is over the threshold you have set in vmPRO under the advanced settings.

You can either increase the threshold or increase the data store size.

I would suggest to increase the data store size seeing that if there is not enough room for the snapshot on the data store the vmPRO backup will still fail.