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An AWS CopyBack task failed due to "Timeout occurred – Retry may solve it”
SUMMARY An AWS CopyBack task failed due to "Timeout occurred – Retry may solve it” ISSUE To move a VM that has already been deployed and may be running in AWS/Azure the ‘CopyBack’ option can be used. This article discusses a timeout failure of the AWS ‘CopyBack’ function. RESOLUTION If an AWS CopyBack operation runs for a…
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Why am I getting an “Unsupported hardware family vmx-X” error message when deploying the Boomerang OVA?
SUMMARY Why am I getting an “Unsupported hardware family vmx-X” error message when deploying the Boomerang OVA? ISSUE If you attempt to deploy the Boomerang OVA to an ESX host with a version earlier than that of ESX5.0, you will get a message of this form: Unsupported hardware family vmx-08 The Boomerang appliance itself…
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Error on replication: "Insufficient permissions in the host operating system. (3014)"
SUMMARY Error on replication: "Insufficient permissions in the host operating system. (3014)" ISSUE The vSphere user account specified in the Credential Profile does not have the required permissions configured to connect and read the VMware environment. The specific error will be similar to: vSphere operation failure:…
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What is AWS CloudFormation and what can I do with CloudFormation?
SUMMARY AWS CloudFormation ISSUE CloudFormation is a deployment descriptor that is used in automating the creation of a ‘stack’ of related resources, running in AWS. Boomerang intelligently creates a CloudFormation script ready to run inside AWS for you, so that you do not have to manually translate your VMware resources…
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Encryption and security of data during transfer and at rest
SUMMARY Encryption and security of data during transfer and at rest DESCRIPTION Transfer From vSphere/ESX: Data is read from the vSphere environment using the Boomerang appliance, and then directly uploaded into the object storage location eg. S3. No data is persisted on the appliance. Reading data from the vSphere…
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Supported Operating Systems for AWS
SUMMARY Supported Operating Systems for AWS DESCRIPTION Deploy After a successful replication, the following operating systems can be deployed into AWS EC2 by Boomerang. Because Boomerang recognizes the guest OS from the VMware Guest OS setting, please make sure that the property is set accordingly. Supported Operating…
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Error: “No privilege is given to access bucket, or the bucket is owned by other AWS account."
SUMMARY Error: “No privilege is given to access bucket, or the bucket is owned by other AWS account." RESOLUTION There are two possible reasons: * The bucket name you specified is already occupied by somebody else. Note that bucket names are unique across all AWS accounts. To make sure your bucket name is not already…
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"VM_LOCK_ERROR Cloud not obtain exclusive access to the Virtual Machine." error on replication
SUMMARY VM_LOCK_ERROR Cloud not obtain exclusive access to the Virtual Machine ISSUE Boomerang reads VM disk data from ESXi or vCenter host using a standard protocol supported by VMware. The "lock" error occurs if VMware protocol informs Boomerang that it cannot get access to specific virtual machines in the Protection…
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Boomerang failed to copy a Protection Group due to "vSphere operation failure: The server refused connection"
SUMMARY Failed to copy a Protection Group due to "vSphere operation failure: The server refused connection" ISSUE During the replication, Boomerang appliance takes a snapshot of a Virtual Machine, and reads VM disk data from ESXi or vCenter host using a standard protocol supported by VMware. This error occurs if Boomerang…
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If I have multiple disks in a VM, which one of them will be used as the boot disk in the destination?
SUMMARY If I have multiple disks in a VM, which one of them will be used as the boot disk in the destination? ISSUE The first disk (usually SCSI disk 0:0) of a VM will be used as the boot disk. Please ensure that the first disk in each VM is the boot disk otherwise deploy may fail. Note that the boot disk set by BIOS will…