VSP is not good. I would turn it off. For older legacy systems, it was fine, but it can cause a server to have as it tries to take a snapshot of a drive. And it can sit there for ages! Personally, Win2k3 should be using VSS - Same as Win2k8 Might well be wrong here, but by default, the VSP option is enabled, but I think in 6.5.6, it is no longer enabled by default. Generally I have found VSP does not play when you limit the size its cache files can grow too. As you said, best to make sure you have a ton of disk space on the drive it is placing them on, and try not to run too many jobs at once as it will kill your throughput and put a load on the machine. And even make it non responsive ! you can also research tuning VSP, but for Win2k3 clients and higher, why bother?? When VSS is much, much better. NBU Admin Guide Vol 1 is a friend to talk to :-) Greetings from Simon :-)
________________________________ From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of pranav batra Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:16 PM To: Veritas Subject: [Veritas-bu] VSP making server hung. Hello, There is one windows 2003 server and we are taking it's backup via VSP . What we have found that in last couple of weeks that when ever tha backup starts the server gets hung. PS:-We have adequate free space in all of the drives. When i changed snapshot from VSP to VSS:-It started working fine. Though i know that VSS is recommended for 2003 servers but we were using VSP since long and thuis server hang issue is very new. Please explain as i am a bit confused between VSP and VSS. Does VSP play any part in making the server hung? Does VSP deletes the nbu_vsp_cache after the reboot of the server ? Or it's something else that ia making the server hung ? Please clear me on this. Thanks and Regards Pranav Batra ________________________________ All the post budget analysis and implications Sign up now. <http://news.in.msn.com/moneyspecial/budget2010/> This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
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