VMware Plan Configuration Returns Wrong FQDN When Configuring Plan

Situation

CloudBerry Backup VM edition is an agentless solution designed to work with VMware Virtual Machines. Our VM edition is not that mature, so the main position of this product is decent VM archiving. When you configure a backup plan, it may return a wrong FQDN even if you enter an IP address. This is actually returned by the VMware API for Data Protection (VADP), and CloudBerry does not handle this accordingly. When your VMware nodes are not part of the domain, they may have wrong hosts files configured.

Solution

This can be resolved by the following workaround:

Navigate to:

C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

Add a new line with the IP address and FQDN of your VMware farm, e.g.:

192.168.1.1 vmware.domain

ipconfig / flushdns may be required.

Example:

type
 C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

[... something else...]

127.0.0.1 fiji.cloud.local

Check that nslookup resolves your IP address to your FQDN, and ping it to see if it returns ICMP. Configure your plan.

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