CA ARCserve® Central
Applications r16.5 Release Notes
1.0 Welcome
Welcome to the CA ARCserve Central Applications
Release Notes file. This document contains information about system
requirements, supported platforms, known issues, and other
information you may need to know before installing the following
applications:
- CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM
Backup
- CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager
- CA ARCserve Central Reporting
- CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby
1.1 System Requirements the CA
ARCserve Central Applications Suite
The minimum system requirements for the CA
ARCserve Central Applications suite are as follows:
Other
Hardware:
- CD/DVD ROM Drive--required only when
installed from a CD/DVD
- SXGA Monitor--XGA (1280 X 1024) or
higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
Operating Systems:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) SP1
- Windows Server 2012
2.0 CA ARCserve Central Host-Based
VM Backup Release Notes
2.1 Welcome
Welcome to the CA ARCserve Central Host-Based
VM Backup Release Notes file. This document contains the following
information relating to use of CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM
Backup:
- System requirements, operating system
support, application recovery support, and other information you
may need to know prior to installation of this product.
- A list of known issues and limitations that
you should be aware of before you use this product.
Note:
For information about system requirements, supported operating
systems, known issues, and so on for CA ARCserve D2D, see the CA
ARCserve D2D Release Notes.
2.2 New Features
This Release Summary describes new features,
functional and usability enhancements, and dropped support included
with CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup r16.5.
r16.5
Update 1:
- CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup is
now enhanced to protect non-Windows virtual machines that run on
VMware ESX Servers. You can perform full and incremental backups,
and can recover VM operations. However, you cannot perform file or
application level restore from non-Windows virtual machine backup
sessions.
r16.5:
- The application supports the following
Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 feature:
- Catalog-less Backup:
File system catalog generation is a time
consuming task. With this feature you can choose not to generate a
catalog file with every backup, and still be able to do a file
level restore. This reduces the backup time window.
- Microsoft Exchange 2013 Backup/Restore (VSS)
is supported.
- UEFI Support:
You can perform BMR from a backup taken on
a UEFI machine to a BIOS machine and from a BIOS machine to a UEFI
machine.
- vSphere 5.1 is supported.
2.3 System Information
The following sections provide information
about the minimum system requirements for CA ARCserve Central
Host-Based VM Backup.
2.3.1 System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for CA ARCserve
Central Host-Based VM Backup are as follows:
- CPU--1 GHz or higher processor is
recommended
- RAM--1 GB or more is recommended
- Disk Space--900 MB or more is
recommended
Other
Hardware:
- CD/DVD ROM Drive--required only when
installed from a CD/DVD
- SXGA Monitor--XGA (1280 X 1024) or
higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
2.3.2 Supported Operating Systems
You can install CA ARCserve Central Host-Based
VM Backup on computers running the following operating systems:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) SP1
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
2.3.3 Supported Hypervisors
You can deploy CA ARCserve Central Host-Based
VM Backup with the following hypervisors:
- VMware ESX Server:
- ESX/ESXi Server 4.0 Update 4
- ESX/ESXi Server 4.1 Update 3
- ESXi Server 5.0 Update 1, 5.0 Update
2
- ESXi Server 5.1
- VMware vCenter Server:
- vCenter Server 4.0 Update 4
- vCenter Server 4.1 Update 3
- vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1, 5.0
Update 2
- vCenter Server 5.1
- VMware vSphere Server:
- vSphere Server 5.5, 5.5 Update 1
2.3.4 Supported Operating Systems for
CA ARCserve D2D Proxy Servers
CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup
requires the following operating systems on backup proxy
servers:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) SP1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64)
- Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64)
Note: Due to a VMware limitation, Windows
Server 2012 is not supported as the backup proxy server, however it
is supported as a guest operating system that can be protected
using CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup. For more
information, see the Limitations section.
2.3.5 Supported Operating Systems for
Protected Virtual Machines
CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup lets
you protect virtual machines running the following operating
systems:
- Windows Server 2012 (x64)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Core (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 (x86/x64)
- Windows Server 2008 Core (x86/x64)
- Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86/x64)
- Windows Server 2003 (x86/x64)
- Windows 8 (x86/x64)
- Windows 7 (x86/x64)
- Windows Vista (x86/x64)
- Windows XP (x86/x64)
Note: CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM
Backup supports all editions and service packs for the
above-described operating systems, which also includes support for
all versions of Windows Small Business Server (SBS).
2.3.6 Supported Operating Systems for
Application Level Restores
CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup can
restore data at application level granularity on computers running
all operating systems that are supported by CA ARCserve D2D
excluding the following operating systems:
- Windows XP x86 and x64
- Windows Vista x86 and x64
- Windows 7 x86 and x64
Note: CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM
Backup behaves in this manner because VMware does not support
creating application level meta data on the excluded operating
systems. (For more information, see Working with Microsoft Shadow
Copy in the VMware Virtual Disk API Programming Guide.)
However, CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup can restore data
on the excluded operating systems at file system and folder level
granularity.
For a complete list of the operating systems
supported by CA ARCserve D2D, see the CA ARCserve D2D Release Notes
file.
2.3.7 Minimum Software
Requirements
The minimum software requirements for CA
ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup servers are as follows:
- Internet Browser: CA ARCserve Central
Host-Based VM Backup supports the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 8.0 or later
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3 or later
- Google Chrome 3.0.195.27 or
later
- Adobe Flash Player: CA ARCserve Central
Host-Based VM Backup requires Adobe Flash Player version
10.2.152.26 or later
- CA ARCserve D2D Proxy
Server: The CA ARCserve D2D proxy server requires the
following applications:
2.3.8 Application Recovery
Support
For a complete list of all supported application
recovery systems, see the CA ARCserve D2D r16.5 Compatibility Matrix.
2.3.9 Supported Disks
Different types of disks are supported for CA
ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup backup source and destination
disks. The following table matrix lists the types of disks that are
supported for each function.
Disk (Volume) Type
|
As Backup Source
|
As Backup Destination
|
GPT Disk
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
System Reserved Partition
(Windows 2008 R2 Boot Manger)
|
Yes
|
Not applicable
|
Mounted Volume
(No drive letter/NTFS formatted)
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RAW Volume
(No drive letter/Not formatted)
|
No
|
No
|
VHD Mounted Volume
(Windows 2008 R2)
|
No
|
Yes
|
Dynamic Disk:
|
|
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
- Software RAID (RAID-0 (Stripe)
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
- Software RAID (RAID-1 (Mirrored)
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
Hardware RAID (include Embedded RAID)
|
Not Applicable
|
Not Applicable
|
File System:
|
|
|
|
No
|
Yes*
|
Shared Volume:
|
|
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
- Linux Shared Volume (samba shared)
|
No
|
Yes
|
Device Type:
|
|
|
- Removable Disk (Ex. Memory Stick,
RDX)
|
No
|
Yes
|
ReFS
|
No
|
Yes
|
NTFS Data Deduplication
|
No
|
Yes
|
*Note: FAT/FAT32 cannot hold a single file
larger than 4 GB. CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup creates
CA ARCserve D2D files and if the file is larger than 4 GB after
compression, the backup fails.
2.4 Known Issues
The following list provides information about
issues known to exist in this release of CA ARCserve Central
Host-Based VM Backup.
- The following issues relate to changed block
tracking (CBT):
- During a Recover VM job for Host-based VM
backup, the vDS network configuration is skipped. After VM
recovery, the vDS network configuration can be added manually.
- While recovering a VM to a specific ESX
Server, if the VM version is not supported by the target ESX
Server, the recover VM operation will fail. (For example, if you
back up a VM with VM Version 8.0 from ESX server 5.0 and then try
to recover to ESX server 4.0/4.1, the recover VM operation will
fail because the VM Version 8.0 is not supported by ESX server
4.0/4.1).
- The application does not support protecting
virtual machine data that resides on FAT/FAT32 file systems, ReFS
volumes, and RAID 5 volumes. The backup jobs skip such volumes when
performed on FAT and FAT32 files systems and RAID 5 volumes.
- Due to a known VMware issue, occasionally a
snapshot named Consolidate Helper- 0 remains in the snapshot
manager after the backup completes. This behavior occurs when you
back up virtual machines that contain VMDK files that reside in
different directories or LUNs and have identical file names. To
delete the erroneous snapshots, turn off the virtual machines.
- The application does not support importing
vCenter servers using VMware Linked mode. To protect all vCenter
server instances in your Linked Mode group, add each vCenter server
instance individually.
- Recovery points do not display immediately
on the Browse Recovery Points dialog when you specify a shared
folder as the destination for CA ARCserve D2D backups. To correct
this problem, do the following:
- After the Browse Recovery Points
dialog opens, wait 30 seconds and click the dates on the calendar.
This approach allows the dialog a sufficient amount of time to
refresh and display the recovery points.
- Reenter the credentials required to
access the backup destination. To reenter the credentials, click
the arrow next to the Select Backup Location field on the Browse
Recovery Points dialog.
- The application supports protecting only
Windows-based virtual machines running on VMware Hardware version 7
or later. When you import virtual machines from ESX Server and
vCenter Server systems, the application skips UNIX-based virtual
machines, Linux-based virtual machines, and guest operating systems
that are not installed on virtual machines running on VMware
Hardware version 7 or later.
- If you are running VMware High Availability
(HA) or VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), import nodes
using a vCenter Server (not ESX) to avoid discovery and backup
issues.
- Virtual machine names that contain JIS2004
characters appear in the VI Client as ??????. This behavior occurs only after you use
CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup to recover the virtual
machines. To correct this problem, rename the virtual machine using
JIS2004 characters in the VI Client after the Recover VM operation
is complete.
To prevent this problem from occurring,
name the virtual machine that you want to recover using standard
(non-JIS2004) characters in the Recover VM screens while submitting
the recovery job. Then, rename the virtual machine using JIS2004
characters in the VI Client after the Recover VM operation is
complete.
- When Catalog generation process failed
for a successful HBBU backup check if the activity log show the
below message
- When Host-Based VM Backup virtual machine
backup jobs complete successfully and the catalog generation
process fails, the following message appears in the Activity Log:
Could not get volume information from virtual
machine Guest OS.
This problem can affect backup jobs that
were successful previously. When this problem occurs, CA ARCserve
Central Host-Based VM Backup generates the backup session but
cannot generate the catalog files that are required to support the
backup sessions. The failed catalog condition prevents you from
performing file level restores because the catalog does not contain
the recovery points that are required for file level restores.
To correct this behavior, the following
corrective actions may solve the problem:
- Examine the status of VMware Tools on the
PFC dialog. When the status indicates Out of Date, install the
latest version of VMware Tools and then resubmit the backup.
- When the guest operating system is Windows
Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2,
provide the built-in or domain administrator credentials to log in
to the virtual machine guest operating system.
Note: Administrator credentials are
required for virtual machine guest operating systems to generate
catalog and perform granular restore.
- When you recover virtual machines to the
original location, and specify the Overwrite existing VM option,
Host-Based VM Backup changes the location of the virtual disk when
it detects the presence of the original virtual machine. This
behavior was designed to help ensure that you do not lose data
during the Recover VM process.
- The application cannot send backup failed
related alert messages when the CA ARCserve D2D virtual machine
proxy system is down or the CA ARCserve D2D service on the proxy is
not running.
- CA ARCserve D2D licensing error email
messages occur under the following scenario:
- CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM
Backup was uninstalled and then reinstalled.
- The CA ARCserve D2D nodes that you
were protecting before you uninstalled CA ARCserve Central
Host-Based VM Backup were added using the Node screen.
- The policy was redeployed.
If you receive email messages that indicate
that licensing errors occurred on the nodes, you can ignore the
messages.
-
When
you sort the View Logs list by the name of the Module, the
application sorts the list based on a predetermined sort order for
the specific language.
-
When
you try to deploy CA ARCserve D2D to a remote node from the CA
ARCserve D2D Home page, a message may appear that indicates that
the user name, password, or both specified for the target node is
not correct. This problem occurs only when you log in to CA
ARCserve D2D from the CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup Node
screen.
Solution: Open a browser window and log in
directly to the CA ARCserve D2D node using the following URL:
http://<hostname>:<port>.
From the new browser window, you can deploy
CA ARCserve D2D to the target node without encountering the error
message.
- CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup
cannot back up USB volumes. If there are any USB volumes included
in the backup source, CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup
skips the USB volumes.
- The following behavior applies to backing up
data that resides on NFS data stores:
- When backing up data that resides on
NFS data stores using changed block tracking, and you do not use
data compression, the size of the first full backup will be at
least the same size as the source disk. However, subsequent
incremental backups will contain only the changed blocks of data.
As a result, the overall size of the incremental backups will be
smaller as compared with the first full backup.
- An alternative approach to backing up
virtual machines in NFS data stores is to install CA ARCserve D2D
inside the guest operating system and back up the virtual machine
in the same manner as you would back up a physical machine.
- If you have a vCenter server that is
configured with a custom HTTPS port and then run a backup job using
the default HTTP port, the backup job fails.
To resolve this issue, use the HTTPS port
for the backup job.
- To restore data to virtual machines that are
implemented using Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI),
ESXi Server 5.0 must be the hypervisor that is installed in the
virtual environment. When ESXi Server 5.0 is not installed in the
virtual environment, the recovery fails and error messages can
appear.
- Backup jobs fail when all of the following
conditions are met:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and later
contains a User Profile Service that unloads specific registry keys
when users log out from the computer.
- Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft
Exchange is installed on the server.
- CA ARCserve D2D backup is user
generated.
- You log out from the server after the
backup starts, but before it completes.
To correct this behavior, use the following
steps:
- Log in to the CA ARCserve Central
Host-Based VM Backup server using the Administrator account or an
account that is a member of the Administrators group.
- Type gpedit.msc in the Run dialog to start
the Local Group Policy Editor.
- From the Local Group Policy Editor, expand
Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System, and User
Profiles.
- From the User Profile directory,
double-click Do not forcefully unload the user registry at user
logoff, to open the dialog.
Click Enabled and then click OK.
Note: The value DisableForceUnload is
added to the registry.
- Type gpudate.exe in the Run dialog from the
CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup server.
Ensure that the security policy settings
are updated.
- When you schedule an Incremental backup for
a virtual machine; and then perform a Storage vMotion, the
Incremental backup converts to a Verify backup.
- When you configure backups to always run
using the SAN transport mode; backups fail when the SAN is not
available. The activity log displays the following error message:
Unable to open VMDK file %1!s!. VMware
reported the following error: You do not have access rights to the
file. For more information, see the debug log AFBackend.Log. If
necessary, contact technical support.
To correct this behavior, apply the SAN
transport mode to the registry only if the SAN is available.
- When you submit a VMware based virtual
machine backup and the backup fails, the following error message
appears:
Could not take snapshot of the virtual
machine. ESX Server/vCenter Server reported the following error:
Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot
operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen
virtual machine.
This is a known issue with VMware and is
working to find a resolution. In the interim, we have listed some
workarounds in our troubleshooting topic, Backups Fail with
Snapshot Creation Errors in the CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM
Backup user guide.
-
If
you are using Google Chrome as your browser and you click a link
from any of the Support and Community Access dialogs and no link
opens, perform the following tasks to enable the link:
- Verify if there is a pop-up blocked icon
displayed in the URL section.
- Click the icon and select the "Always allow
pop-ups from <YOURSERVERNAME>" option.
- Restart Google Chrome. The links from CA
ARCserve D2D should open successfully.
- If the data is still not shown in the
correct format, check if RSS extension for the Google Chrome
browser is installed or not.
- If not installed, download and install the
RSS extension for the Google Chrome browser and reopen the
links.
-
When
you submit or schedule an Incremental backup job for a virtual
machine on an ESX 5.0 server; a Verify backup job runs instead.
Follow these steps to correct this behavior:
- Right-click the virtual machine that is
converting Incremental backups to Verify backups.
- Select Snapshot and then select the
Consolidate option.
- When the consolidating process completes,
resubmit or reschedule the Incremental backup job and confirm that
the backups are not being converted to Verify backups.
- The process of generating catalogs may stop
responding when the volume extent is spread across a disk.
Symptom:
The volumes extent cannot have more than
one logical extent across a disk. This behavior occurs on striped
volumes and does not occur on simple, mirrored, and spanned
volumes.
Solution:
To prevent this behavior from occurring,
the volumes extent should be contiguous on a disk.
- Intermittent failures in backup, restore,
merge, and other operations are observed if a network share on a
"HP StorageWorks D2D4106" device is used as the backup destination
for CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup. It is not recommended
to use this device for the backup destination.
- For uncompressed and unencrypted backups, it
may not be possible to resume the merge after pausing it. CA
Technologies is in the process of resolving this issue.
r16.5
r16.5
Update 1
- When you perform Incremental backup jobs for
VMware virtual machines, the size of the Incremental backup jobs is
larger than expected. This is a known VMware issue where it
involves Changed Block Tracking (CBT). To correct this behavior,
set the following registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CA\CA ARCserve
D2D\AFBackupDll\<VM instance UUID>]
"ResetCBT"=dword:00000001
Example:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CA\CA ARCserve
D2D\AFBackupDll\502d3c43-e3c9-9919-78f9-89082ca5e1cc]
"ResetCBT"=dword:00000001
Note: After the registry value is set, the
next Incremental backup job converts to a Verify backup job and
then the subsequent Incremental backup jobs continue to run with
the appropriate size.
- When you power on a recovered virtual
machine (VM) that contains a virtual flash read cache, the virtual
machine fails and displays the following error message, "The
available virtual flash resource ('0' bytes) is not sufficient for
the requested operation". This error occurs when the target (ESX)
host does not have the virtual flash resource or when the target
host virtual flash resource is less than the size of the VM virtual
flash read cache.
To resolve this issue, set the virtual
flash read cache to 0 in the recovered VM settings and then power
on the VM.
- The VMware ESXi server stops working when
you use E1000E/E1000 vNIC Adapters on virtual machines that run on
VMware ESXi. As an alternative solution, refer to the following
VMware Knowledge Base article: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2059053
r16.5
Update 2
- With version VDDK 5.5 or later, the Hot Add
Transport mode will not work with ESXi level but will work with VC
level. When Hot Add Transport mode is selected, the mode is changed
back to NBD mode. This behavior occurs in CA ARCserve Central
Host-Based VM Backup and CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby.
2.5 Limitations
The following list provides limitations that
are known to exist in this release of CA ARCserve Central
Host-Based VM Backup.
- Due to a known VMware limitation, Host-Based
Backup does not support application level restores from backup
sessions of Windows 2008 or later or virtual machines running on
ESX 4.0 or earlier. The application supports file system backups,
file system restores, recover virtual machines, and bare metal
recovery operations in this type of environment.
- Due to a known VMware limitation, CA
ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup cannot protect ESXi virtual
machines using a free license. To back up these virtual machines,
apply a purchased license.
- Due to a known VMware VDDK licensing
limitation, the following jobs should not be performed using custom
ports (HTTP, HTTPS):
- The message, "Cannot open VMDK file"
is displayed when you try to back up a virtual machine using a
VMware vCenter or ESX server custom HTTP port.
- The message, "Failed to recover
virtual disks" is displayed when you try to recover a virtual
machine using a VMware vCenter or ESX Server customized HTTP port.
This message is also displayed when you try to recover a virtual
machine using a VMware ESX Server custom HTTPS port.
- Due to a known VMware limitation, errors in
the Activity Log appear in English when the Location is set to a
non-English locale.
- CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup now
supports backing up data using Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface (UEFI) with ESXi Server 5.0 installed on the virtual
machine. If ESXi Server 5.0 is not installed on the virtual
environment, the following error message appears:
The application cannot recover this virtual
machine because ESXi Server 5.0 is not installed on the virtual
environment.
- Due to a known VMware limitation, there are
times where VMware Storage vMotion cannot migrate a virtual machine
which is being protected by CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM
Backup. To correct this behavior, see the following Knowledge Base
article on the VMware website: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2008957
- Due to a known VMware limitation, when you
protect a SQL Server running on a Windows Server 2012 virtual
machine (VM) hosted on a VMware server with data stored on another
Windows Server 2012 computer, it is required to install Client
Agent or CA ARCserve D2D to the VM. CA ARCserve Central Host-Based
VM Backup is not recommended as the backup method.
- Due to a known CA ARCserve Central
Host-Based VM Backup limitation, the application does not support
the following volumes:
- CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup
does not support application level recovery on Windows Server 2012
and Windows 8 systems where storage spaces are enabled, however the
entire virtual machine can be recovered.
Note: CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM
Backup can only protect ESXi virtual machines at the disk level.
The application cannot protect the data that resides on the virtual
disks that are created by Storage Space at the volume and file
levels. The backup job will skip the volumes residing on the
virtual disks that are created by Storage Space.
- Due to a known VMware limitation, sparse
space efficient (SE) disks are not supported and will be skipped
from the backup job. In addition, VMware specifies that the
'seSparse' virtual disk type is intended for internal use only. For
more information, see the vSphere Web Services SDK 5.1 Release Notes on
the VMware website.
For information about VMware virtual
machines that are configured with space-efficient (SE sparse)
disks, see the VMware Knowledge Base article.
- When you manage ESX Server 5.0 and higher
with vCenter Server and you try to recover a virtual machine
directly to the ESX host, the recovery fails. To resolve this
issue, disconnect the ESX server and then resubmit the recovery job
to the ESX host.
- Due to a VMware limitation, CA ARCserve
Central Host-Based VM Backup does not support Windows Server 2012
virtual machines that have ReFS volumes, NTFS Data Deduplication
volumes, or both enabled. However, the application supports virtual
machines running on Windows Server 2012 virtual machines that do
not have ReFS volumes, NTFS Data Deduplication, or both disabled.
As an alternative solution in supporting
Windows Server 2012 virtual machines that has ReFS volumes, NTFS
Data Deduplication volumes, or both enabled, install CA ARCserve
D2D inside the virtual machines and perform the backup operations
directly from the virtual machines.
Note: VMware is working to resolve this
limitation.
- A data corruption problem may occur when you
have machines with Intel 82574L or E1000E vNIC network adapters on
your CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup environment. This is
due to a data corruption issue of this model of network adapters
when using its TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) feature.
To avoid this problem, perform one of the
following actions:
For more information about this problem,
see "Errata 17 - Tx Data Corruption When Using TCP Segmentation
Offload" in the following Intel document:
Intel 82574 Family Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Specification Update
- CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup
does not support granular restore for NTFS deduplication volume for
the Windows Server 2012 R2 guest operating system.
This limitation is only applicable to
Windows Server 2012 R2 deduplication volumes because VMware has not
certified Windows Server 2012 R2 as a proxy with VDDK 5.5. As an
alternate solution, install CA ARCserve D2D on to the virtual
machines and directly perform the backup operations.
- Due to VMware limitations, HTTP protocol and
vSAN beta are not supported.
- In an Exchange Database Availability Group
(DAG) environment, CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup can
only truncate logs for the protected Exchange nodes. The following
alternatives will result in log truncation on all DAG nodes:
3.0 CA ARCserve Central Protection
Manager Release Notes
3.1 Welcome
Welcome to the CA ARCserve Central Protection
Manager Release Notes file. This document contains the following
information relating to use of CA ARCserve Central Protection
Manager:
- System requirements, operating system
support, and other information you may need to know prior to
installation of this product.
- A list of known issues that you should be
aware of before you use this product.
Note:
For information about system requirements, supported operating
systems, known issues, and so on for CA ARCserve D2D, see the CA
ARCserve D2D Release Notes.
3.2 New Features
This Release Summary describes new features,
functional, and usability enhancements, and dropped support that is
included with CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager r16.5 and
Update releases.
r16.5
Update 2:
- In this release, CA ARCserve Central
Protection Manager now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2014 as their
database.
3.3 System Information
The following sections provide information
about the minimum system requirements for CA ARCserve Central
Protection Manager.
3.3.1 System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for CA ARCserve
Central Protection Manager are as follows:
- CPU--1 GHz or higher processor is
recommended
- RAM--1 GB or more is recommended
- Disk Space--3.82 GB or more is
recommended
Other
Hardware:
- CD/DVD ROM Drive--required only when
installed from a CD/DVD
- SXGA Monitor--XGA (1280 X 1024) or
higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
3.3.2 Supported Operating Systems
You can install CA ARCserve Central Protection
Manager on computers running the following operating systems:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) SP1
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
3.3.3 Supported Operating Systems for
CA ARCserve D2D Servers
For
a complete list of the operating systems that are currently
supported for CA ARCserve D2D servers, see the Compatibility Matrix
on the CA Support website.
To access the CA ARCserve D2D Compatibility
Matrix, click the following link to open the CA ARCserve D2D
Support website, then click the Supported Platforms link under the
"Benefits to your business" section.
http://www.arcserve.com/us/Products/CA-ARCserve-D2D.aspx
3.3.4 Supported Operating Systems for
CA ARCserve Backup Servers
For
a complete list of supported operating systems for CA ARCserve
Backup servers, see the CA ARCserve Backup Readme on the CA Support
website.
3.3.5 Minimum Software
Requirements
The minimum software requirements for CA
ARCserve Central Protection Manager servers are as follows:
- CA ARCserve Central
Protection Manager Database: CA ARCserve Central
Protection Manager requires one of the following database
applications:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Web/Standard/Enterprise
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express
Edition
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014
- Internet Browser: CA ARCserve Central
Protection Manager supports the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 8.0 or later
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3 or later
- Google Chrome 3.0.195.27 or
later
- Adobe Flash Player: CA ARCserve Central
Protection Manager requires Adobe Flash Player version 10.2.152.26
or later
3.4 Known Issues
The following list provides information about
issues known to exist in this release of CA ARCserve Central
Protection Manager.
- The application does not support importing
vCenter servers using VMware Linked mode. To protect all vCenter
server instances in your Linked Mode group, add each vCenter server
instance individually.
- D2D Deployment fails if CA ARCserve D2D r16
was uninstalled from a node before deploying CA ARCserve D2D to
that node. The deployment fails because the previous driver was not
removed from the target node. To deploy CA ARCserve D2D to the
node, uninstall the driver from the target node by doing the
following:
- From the Start menu, select Run.
- Enter "regedit" and click OK to open the
Registry Editor.
- Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE from the File
menu in the Registry Editor and open the SYSTEM file.
- Delete "ARCFlashVolDrv" from "LowerFilters"
in the following entries:
Important! The "LowerFilters" registry key
may also contain other Windows driver names. Be sure to delete only
the "ARCFlashVolDrv" value from the list. Do not delete the entire
registry key or any other driver names from within the key.
-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{533C5B84-EC70-11D2-9505-00C04F79DEAF}\LowerFilters
-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{71A27CDD-812A-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}\LowerFilters
- Delete the following registry keys:
-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\services\ARCFlashVolDrv
-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\System\ARCFlashVolDrv
- Close the Registry Editor and restart the
node.
- After you click the Manage option (located
on the upper right corner of the CA ARCserve D2D home page) to
manage another CA ARCserve D2D node, you cannot log out of the
managed node. You will discover this behavior the next time you log
in to CA ARCserve D2D from the CA ARCserve Central Protection
Manager Node screen: The CA ARCserve D2D home page for the node
that you managed last opens.
To correct this problem, close all CA
ARCserve D2D and CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager windows and
then log in to CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager.
- The Copy link on the D2D Deployment License
Agreement dialog does not let you copy the CA ARCserve D2D End User
License Agreement to the clipboard. You can encounter this problem
on Firefox and Chrome browsers. To copy the CA ARCserve D2D End
User License Agreement to the clipboard, click in the license
content, select all of the text, and then do one of the following:
- Firefox browsers--From the Edit menu,
click Copy.
- Chrome browsers--From the Customize
and Control Google Chrome menu, click Copy.
- When you upgrade CA ARCserve D2D r15 to
r16.5 and then perform a full CA ARCserve D2D data synchronization,
CA ARCserve D2D omits r15 data and generates r16.5 data for your
reports.
- When you import nodes from a file, the
Import Nodes from a File dialog displays C:\fakepath\[set the File
Name variable] instead of the real location of the file. The real
location is not displayed due to HTML 5 (security) standards. This
behavior occurs on Chrome, Internet Explorer 8, and Internet
Explorer 9 browsers.
To display the real location of the file on
Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 browsers, open Internet
Options, click Security, specify a Zone, click Custom Level, scroll
to the Miscellaneous section, and enable Include local directory
path when uploading files to a server. Chrome does not contain a
mechanism that lets you view the real location of the file.
- The following known issues occur for Global
Dashboard (GDB) nodes, branch servers:
-
When
you sort the View Logs list by the name of the Module, the
application sorts the list based on a predetermined sort order for
the specific language.
-
When
you try to deploy CA ARCserve D2D to a remote node from the CA
ARCserve D2D Home page, a message may appear that indicates that
the user name, password, or both specified for the target node is
not correct. This problem occurs only when you log in to CA
ARCserve D2D from the CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager Node
screen.
Solution: Open a browser window and log in
directly to the CA ARCserve D2D node using the following URL:
http://<hostname>:<port>.
From the new browser window, you can deploy
CA ARCserve D2D to the target node without encountering the error
message.
- After you click the Manage option to manage
another CA ARCserve D2D node, you cannot log out of the managed
node. The Manage Option is located on the upper right corner of the
CA ARCserve D2D home page. You will discover this behavior the next
time you log in to CA ARCserve D2D from the CA ARCserve Central
Protection Manager Node screen: The CA ARCserve D2D home page for
the node that you managed last opens.
To correct this problem, close all CA
ARCserve D2D and CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager windows and
then log in to CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager.
- To restore data to virtual machines that are
implemented using Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI),
ESXi Server 5.0 must be the hypervisor that is installed in the
virtual environment. When ESXi Server 5.0 is not installed in the
virtual environment, the recovery fails and error messages will
appear.
- The Merge Failure alert option is not
applied to policies on D2D nodes under the following conditions:
- The CA ARCserve Central Protection
Manager server is running r16.5 and the CA ARCserve D2D nodes are
running the r16 GA release, Update 1, Update 2, Update 3, or Update
4.
- The policy is then created or updated
on the Protection Manager server and includes the (new) Merge
Failure alert option, and then the D2D nodes are upgraded to
r16.5.
To correct this behavior, update and save
the policy on the Protection Manager server. When you save the
policy, Protection Manager applies the policy changes to the nodes
automatically.
-
If
you are using Google Chrome as your browser and you click a link
from any of the Support and Community Access dialogs and no link
opens, perform the following tasks to enable the link:
- Verify if there is a pop-up blocked icon
displayed in the URL section.
- Click the icon and select the "Always allow
pop-ups from <YOURSERVERNAME>" option.
- Restart Google Chrome. The links from CA
ARCserve D2D should open successfully.
- If the data is still not shown in the
correct format, check if RSS extension for the Google Chrome
browser is installed or not.
- If not installed, download and install the
RSS extension for the Google Chrome browser and reopen the
links.
-
Remote
deployment of CA ARCserve D2D r16.5 to a Windows XP system can fail
with error: Failed to get installation status feedback from the
remote target host.
Symptom:
A timeout error or a bad network connection
can cause this failure. The XP system shows the CA ARCserve D2D
installation is complete but the reboot fails. You cannot reboot
the system manually. Therefore, a hard reboot is required. This
problem is a known issue with Windows XP.
Solution:
Apply the following Microsoft patches
before deploying CA ARCserve D2D or install CA ARCserve D2D locally
on a Windows XP system:
- From the CA ARCserve Central Applications
Service Properties dialog, an error message displays when you
change the "Log on as" account from the administrators group to an
account in a different group.
- Intermittent failures in backup, restore,
merge, and other operations are observed if a network share on a
"HP StorageWorks D2D4106" device is used as the backup destination
for CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager. It is not recommended
to use this device for the backup destination.
- For uncompressed and unencrypted backups, it
may not be possible to resume the merge after pausing it. CA
Technologies is in the process of resolving this issue.
- If you have the combination of Microsoft SQL
Server 2012 SP1 (64-bit) and Microsoft SQL Management Studio,
uninstall Microsoft SQL Management Studio before installing CA
ARCserve Central Protection Manager. For more information, see
Article 770630 on the Microsoft website.
3.5 Fixed Issues
The following list identifies the items fixed
in the current release of CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager.
If you do not see a specific fix listed in this section, contact CA
Support for more information.
Export Nodes to CSV Files:
- When you use the Export option to export the
node information to a CSV file, the password is now encrypted.
Consider the following scenarios when you view the CSV file:
Note: Originally, the CSV file contained
three columns: "Node Name", "User Name", "Password". This fix now
includes a fourth column where it contains a True or False status
of whether the password was encrypted or not.
- When you change a password for a
particular node; you can also change the password in the file,
however it is required that you change the fourth column to
False.
- When you create a new CSV file (not
using CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager), the fourth column
for all nodes must equal to False.
- If you export a file from the Update
6 release and import the file to the Update 7 release, then you
must add the fourth column to the exporting CSV file with the value
of False.
4.0 CA ARCserve Central Reporting
Release Notes
4.1 Welcome
Welcome to the CA ARCserve Central Reporting
Release Notes file. This document contains the following
information relating to use of CA ARCserve Central Reporting:
- System requirements, operating system
support, and other information you may need to know prior to
installation of this product.
- A list of known issues that you should be
aware of before you use this product.
4.2 Features
CA ARCserve Central Reporting includes
features, functionalities, and capabilities that let you do the
following:
- Collect information and view reports about
the performance of CA ARCserve D2D nodes and CA ARCserve Backup
servers from a central location. For example:
- CPU usage
- Memory usage
- Disk throughput
- Network input and output
- View reports in tabular and chart formats in
a browser-based, dashboard interface.
- Filter data to view reports about specific
servers or groups of protected servers so that you can target
report data that is unique to a set of systems with common
characteristics.
- Export the collected data for the reports as
CSV files for use with spreadsheets. You can also print or send the
reports via email.
- Integrate CA ARCserve Central Reporting with
CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager, CA ARCserve Central Virtual
Standby, and CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup to leverage
the features and capabilities of each of the CA ARCserve Central
Applications.
- Manage CA ARCserve D2D r16 nodes in logical,
organized, groups.
- Manage CA ARCserve Backup r16 servers in
logical, organized, groups.
4.3 System Information
The following sections provide information
about the minimum system requirements for CA ARCserve Central
Reporting.
4.3.1 System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for CA ARCserve
Central Reporting are as follows:
- CPU--1 GHz or higher processor is
recommended
- RAM--1 GB or more is recommended
- Disk Space--840 MB or more is
recommended
Other
Hardware:
- CD/DVD ROM Drive--required only when
installed from a CD/DVD
- SXGA Monitor--XGA (1280 X 1024) or
higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
4.3.2 Supported Operating Systems
You can install CA ARCserve Central Reporting
on computers running the following operating systems:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) SP1
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
4.3.3 Minimum Software
Requirements
The minimum software requirements for CA
ARCserve Central Reporting are as follows:
4.4 Known Issues
The following list provides information about
issues known to exist in this release of CA ARCserve Central
Reporting.
- When you load Data Trend reports or select
the data point in the chart for a drill-in view, you get a script
error message. This error message occurs if the trending history is
too long or there are too many nodes in the drill-in view. This
error only happens if you are using Internet Explorer 8 or older
versions of Mozilla Firefox (older than 4.0).
To prevent this problem from occurring, do
one of the following based on the browser you are using:
For Firefox users:
- Enter "about:config" in the Firefox address bar
and click Enter.
A list of preferences is displayed.
- Enter "dom.max_chrome_script_run_time" in
the Filter field.
The Timeout value is displayed.
- Increase the timeout value as necessary.
Note: The time unit is in seconds.
For more details regarding this issue,
refer to the http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dom.max_chrome_script_run_time.
For Internet Explorer 8 users:
- From the Start menu, select Run.
- Enter "Regedt32.exe" and click Enter.
The Registry Editor dialog opens.
Note: You must be logged in to the
computer using the Administrator account or an account with
administrative privileges to open Registry Editor.
- Open the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Styles.
Note: If the Styles key is not available,
create a key and name it Styles.
- Create a DWORD value named
"MaxScriptStatements" for the Styles key and set the value to the
desired number of script statements.
Note: If you are uncertain as to what
value to set the key to, you can use 0xFFFFFFFF.
For more details regarding this issue,
refer to the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175500.
5.0 CA ARCserve Central Virtual
Standby Release Notes
5.1 Welcome
Welcome to the CA ARCserve Central Virtual
Standby Release Notes file. This document contains the following
information relating to use of CA ARCserve Central Virtual
Standby:
- System requirements, operating system
support, application recovery support, and other information you
may need to know prior to installation of this product.
- A list of known issues and limitations that
you should be aware of before you use this product.
Note:
For information about system requirements, supported operating
systems, known issues, and so on for CA ARCserve D2D, see the CA
ARCserve D2D Release Notes.
5.2 New Features
This Release Summary describes new features,
functional and usability enhancements, and dropped support included
with CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby r16.5.
- Supports replication of Windows Server 2012
and Windows 8 servers.
- Supports replication of Catalog less CA
ARCserve D2D sessions.
- Hyper-V 3.0 is supported.
- vSphere 5.1 is supported.
- Remote Virtual Standby
The ability to leverage and integrate the
capabilities already available with CA ARCserve Replication to move
CA ARCserve D2D recovery points to offsite locations and then
enabling CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby to convert those
replicated recovery points and to automatically register them with
either Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vCenter, or ESXi.
5.3 System Information
The following sections provide information
about the minimum system requirements for CA ARCserve Central
Virtual Standby.
5.3.1 System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for CA ARCserve
Central Virtual Standby are as follows:
Other
Hardware:
- CD/DVD ROM Drive--required only when
installed from a CD/DVD
- SXGA Monitor--XGA (1280 X 1024) or
higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
5.3.2 Supported Operating Systems
You can install CA ARCserve Central Virtual
Standby on computers running the following operating systems:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) SP1
- Windows Server 2012 (x64)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
Note: For a complete list of the operating
systems supported for the Virtual Standby Monitor Server, see
CA ARCserve D2D Compatibility Matrix on the CA
Support website.
5.3.3 Supported Hypervisors
You can deploy CA ARCserve Central Virtual
Standby with the following hypervisors:
- Microsoft Hyper-V:
- Windows Server 2008 SP2 Hyper-V
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Hyper-V
- Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 SP2
- Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
- Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
SP1
- Windows Hyper-V Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
- VMware ESX Server:
- ESX/ESXi Server 4.0 Update 4
- ESX/ESXi Server 4.1 Update 3
- ESXi Server 5.0 Update 1, 5.0 Update
2
- ESXi Server 5.1
- VMware vCenter Server:
- vCenter Server 4.0 Update 4
- vCenter Server 4.1 Update 3
- vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1, 5.0
Update 2
- vCenter Server 5.1
- VMware vSphere Server:
- vSphere 5.5, 5.5 Update 1
5.3.4 Supported Operating Systems for
CA ARCserve D2D Servers
For
a complete list of the operating systems that are currently
supported for CA ARCserve D2D servers, see the Compatibility Matrix
on the CA Support website.
To access the CA ARCserve D2D Compatibility
Matrix, click the following link to open the CA ARCserve D2D
Support website, then click the Supported Platforms link under the
"Benefits to your business" section.
http://www.arcserve.com/us/Products/CA-ARCserve-D2D.aspx
5.3.5 Minimum Software
Requirements
The minimum software requirements for CA
ARCserve Central Virtual Standby servers are as follows:
- Internet Browser: CA ARCserve Central
Virtual Standby supports the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 8.0 or later
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3 or later
- Google Chrome 3.0.195.27 or
later
- Adobe Flash Player: CA ARCserve Central
Virtual Standby requires Adobe Flash Player version 10.2.152.26 or
later
5.3.6 Application Recovery
Support
For a complete list of all supported
application recovery systems, see the CA ARCserve D2D r16.5 Compatibility Matrix.
5.3.7 Supported Disks
Different types of disks are supported for the
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby backup source. The following
table lists the types of disks that are supported for each
function.
Disk (Volume) Type
|
In Backup Source
|
GPT Disk
|
No
|
System Reserved Partition
(Windows 2008 R2 Boot Manger)
|
Yes
|
Mounted Volume
(No drive letter/NTFS formatted)
|
Yes
|
RAW Volume
(No drive letter/Not formatted)
|
No
|
VHD Mounted Volume
(Windows 2008 R2)
|
No
|
Dynamic Disk:
|
|
|
Yes
|
- Software RAID (RAID-0 (Stripe)
|
Yes
|
- Software RAID (RAID-1 (Mirrored)
|
Yes
|
|
No
|
Hardware RAID (include Embedded RAID)
|
Not Applicable
|
File System:
|
|
|
No
|
Shared Volume:
|
|
|
No
|
- Linux Shared Volume (samba shared)
|
No
|
Device Type:
|
|
- Removable Disk (Ex. Memory Stick,
RDX)
|
No
|
5.4 Known Issues
The following list provides information about
issues known to exist in this release of CA ARCserve Central
Virtual Standby.
- When powering on virtual machines from
virtual machines or physical computers that contain multiple disks
from computers running Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7,
Windows 8, or Windows Server 2012, all of the disks start in an
offline status when powered on. This behavior occurs because SAN
policies were introduced to Windows 2008 and later operating
systems. The operating system protects shared disks that are
accessed by more than one server. The first time the server detects
the disk, Windows places the disk in an offline state. After the
disk is placed in an online state, the disk remains in an online
state.
Another cause for this behavior relates
powering on virtual machines that contain "read only" volumes. To
correct this condition, place the volumes on the disk in a writable
state.
- The application does not support importing
vCenter servers using VMware Linked mode. To protect all vCenter
server instances in Linked Mode groups, add each vCenter server
instance individually.
- The application does not support configuring
Windows Server 2008 SP1 systems as Hyper-V servers.
- The application does not support converting
recovery points to Hyper-V format when the system volume or the
boot volume on the source computer resides on dynamic disks.
- The application does not support creating
policies that let you define the quantity of dynamic RAM used by
the virtual machines that you are protecting on Windows 2008 R2 SP1
and windows 2012 Hyper-V Server systems.
- The application does not support protecting
source servers running Windows XP that are configured using SCSI
disks. The application cannot power on the recovery point snapshots
and retrieve all of the SCSI disks configured on the source
server.
- When you import nodes from a file, the
Import Nodes from a File dialog displays C:\fakepath\[set the File
Name variable] instead of the real location of the file. The real
location is not displayed due to HTML 5 (security) standards. This
behavior occurs on Chrome, Internet Explorer 8, and Internet
Explorer 9 browsers.
To display the real location of the file on
Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 browsers, open Internet
Options, click Security, specify a Zone, click Custom Level, scroll
to the Miscellaneous section, and enable Include local directory
path when uploading files to a server. Chrome does not contain a
mechanism that lets you view the real location of the file.
-
When
you sort the View Logs list by the name of the Module, the
application sorts the list based on a predetermined sort order for
the specific language.
-
When
you try to deploy CA ARCserve D2D to a remote node from the CA
ARCserve D2D Home page, a message may appear that indicates that
the user name, password, or both specified for the target node is
not correct. This problem occurs only when you log in to CA
ARCserve D2D from the CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby Node
screen.
Solution: Open a browser window and log in
directly to the CA ARCserve D2D node using the following URL:
http://<hostname>:<port>.
From the new browser window, you can deploy
CA ARCserve D2D to the target node without encountering the error
message.
- CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby does not
support performing V2P recoveries from the current state for the
nodes that were imported from CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM
Backup in a powered on state. Instead you can use any snapshot
other than the current state.
- CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby does not
support performing V2P recoveries on nodes that were imported from
CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup in a powered off state. To
perform a full VM recovery, submit a Recover VM job using
Host-Based VM Backup,
- When you perform a V2P recovery using the
current snapshot, a message may appear that indicates the
following:
Failed to get Recovery Point information.
This behavior occurs when you perform a V2P
recovery using the latest snapshot and a conversion job for the
node did not complete after the Virtual Standby policy was
redeployed to the node.
Solution:
- Submit a CA ARCserve D2D backup job to
capture the current state of the node. Then perform a Bare Metal
Recovery of the node.
- Power off the Virtual Standby virtual
machine and then submit a Virtual Standby conversion job to create
a current recovery point snapshot for the node.
- The V2P user interface may not display the
latest snapshot. This behavior occurs when you perform a V2P
recovery after you complete a V2P recovery from the latest
snapshot.
Solution: Perform the V2P recovery using
CA ARCserve D2D Bare Metal Recovery.
- When you deploy policies to virtual machines
that use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), the policy
deployment process can fail. This behavior occurs due to a VDDK API
limitation, which prevents the mounting of GPT volumes.
-
If
you are using Google Chrome as your browser and you click a link
from any of the Support and Community Access dialogs and no link
opens, perform the following tasks to enable the link:
- Verify if there is a pop-up blocked icon
displayed in the URL section.
- Click the icon and select the "Always allow
pop-ups from <YOURSERVERNAME>" option.
- Restart Google Chrome. The links from CA
ARCserve D2D should open successfully.
- If the data is still not shown in the
correct format, check if RSS extension for the Google Chrome
browser is installed or not.
- If not installed, download and install the
RSS extension for the Google Chrome browser and reopen the
links.
- When you want to use the original computer
after it has been recovered instead of the virtual standby machine,
it is required to manually redirect the DNS back to the original
computer.
Follow these steps:
- Find the DNS redirection utility
update_dns.exe in %D2D%\bin\DNSTOOLS
- Run the following command line:
update_dns.exe -dns <IP of DNS
server> -hostname < Full Qualified Domain Name of the
original machine> -hostip <IP of the original machine>
-username <administrative user name of DNS server> -password
<password of the administrative user name of DNS server>
Example: update_dns.exe -dns 192.168.2.1
-hostname master.rha.com -hostip 192.168.2.12 -username tester
-password test
The DNS is redirected back to the original
computer.
- If you have the combination of Microsoft SQL
Server 2012 SP1 (64-bit) and Microsoft SQL Management Studio,
uninstall Microsoft SQL Management Studio before installing CA
ARCserve Central Virtual Standby. For more information, see
Article 770630 on the Microsoft website.
- The integration of CA ARCserve Replication
and High Availability and Remote Virtual Standby is not supported
under the following conditions:
- The backup destination is on a
network or a NAS device.
- The RHA destination is a network
share or a NAS device.
NAS devices are not supported due to the
following reasons:
- RHA data must reside on a local
volume to monitor the changes on the backup destination, and to
perform the replication.
- Remote virtual standby data must
reside on a local volume to take a VSS snapshot to ensure that
consistent data is being converted.
As an alternative solution, you can perform
one of the following options if you want to use a NAS device:
- When a NAS device is used as the
backup destination; create iSCSI LUNs (numbered disk drives) or VHD
files on the device, mount iSCSI LUNs or VHD files on the RHA
master, and then perform the replication from the iSCSI LUNs or VHD
files.
- When a NAS device is used as the
replica destination; create iSCSI LUNs or VHD files on the device,
mount iSCSI LUNs or VHD files on the replica destination, and then
perform the replication to the iSCSI LUNs or VHD files.
Note: Windows Server 2012 or later is
required to use these alternative solutions.
- When the backup source machine (where D2D is
installed) contains native 4KB sector disks and the D2D backup job
backed up the volumes on the 4KB sector disks, the standby virtual
machine that converted the D2D backup sessions cannot detect the
partitions and volumes of the corresponding 4KB sector disks. You
can expect this behavior when the source disks contain 4KB sectors
and the standby virtual machine supports 512B sector disks. After
conversion, the guest operating system on the standby virtual
machine fails to locate the disk metadata due to the sector size
changes.
Note: This limitation applies to only
Virtual Standby jobs running on Hyper-V servers.
5.5 Limitations
The following list provides limitations that
are known to exist in this release of CA ARCserve Central Virtual
Standby.
- In VMware ESX Server environments that are
configured in a storage area network (SAN), the application copies
only the first, full backup session to the ESX Server system using
the SAN. For all subsequent full and incremental backups, the
application copies the converted backup sessions using the LAN. The
application behaves in this manner due to a VMware limitation. For
more information, see the VMware website.
- Due to a VMware limitation, CA ARCserve
Central Virtual Standby cannot create virtual machines on ESXi
Server systems using a free license. To create virtual machines, a
purchased license is required.
- Due to a known VMware limitation, errors in
the Activity Log appear in English when the Location is set to a
non-English locale.
- Due to a VDDK API limitation, CA ARCserve
Central Virtual Standby cannot support the UEFI (Unified Extensible
Firmware Interface) system, therefore when you deploy a policy to a
UEFI system, deployment fails.
- Due to a VMware limitation, CA ARCserve
Central Virtual Standby does not support virtual standby of Windows
8/Windows Server 2012 to ESX versions older than 5.1.
- When CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby
converts to a Hyper-V 3.0 server, the only format that is supported
is VHD. VHDX format is not supported.
- A data corruption problem may occur when you
have machines with Intel 82574L or E1000E vNIC network adapters on
your CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby environment. This is due
to a data corruption issue of this model of network adapters when
using its TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) feature.
To avoid this problem, perform one of the
following actions:
For more information about this problem,
see "Errata 17 - Tx Data Corruption When Using TCP Segmentation
Offload" in the following Intel document:
Intel 82574 Family Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Specification Update
6.0 Language Certifications
This release of CA ARCserve Central
Applications has been translated into the following languages, in
addition to the English release:
- Brazilian-Portuguese
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
- Spanish
- Traditional Chinese
If you run this product on a language
environment not included in the list, you may experience
problems.
7.0 Acknowledgements
The following license agreements are available
in the \Bookshelf_Files\TPSA folder in the CA Bookshelf:
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Support Links
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Applications:
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