When dealing with VDP, a lot of the things you need to do are not possible from the GUI, I will try to list some of the more useful commands that you can use through SSH to the appliance.

• Status of all services on the VDP appliance

dpnctl status all

• General status of garbage collection, de-duplication, last checkpoint…etc

status.dpn

• Changes in the size of the backup per VM, this is good to know for capacity planning

capacity.sh

• Get a list of running tasks

mccli activity show

This will give a list of activity with IDs as well as the status of each activity.

• Get the log of a certain activity

mccli activity get-log --id=XXXXXXXXXX

You get the ID from the “show” command, this will give you a nice log of what is going on.

• Cancel a running activity

mccli activity cancel --id=XXXXXXXXXX

• Get a list of all registered clients (backup sources)

mccli client show --recursive=true

• Kick a backup of a single client by hand

mccli client backup-dataset --name=VM_NAME --domain=/DOMAIN/DOMIN

The VM_NAME and DOMAIN you will get from the “show” command

<note>I will keep adding commands in here as I find them</note>