These days I had to troubleshoot a problem with system time within a VMware vSphere VM. During backup VM freezes for more than 30 seconds. When this happens, system time in VM also stops and resets to current time after the freeze. And this behavior causes massive problems in the application-layer. During troubleshooting we found a very slow VM snapshot deletion on NFS volumes on […]
vCenter warning during guest quiescing for snapshots
In an environment I saw this error when backup creates VMware snapshots of three VMs: Warning message on VM on host in datacenter. The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 5. The error message was: ‘VssSyncStart’ operation failed. IDispatch error #8723 (0x80042413) Facts about the environment: Versions: ESXi version: 6.7.0, 13981272. Guest: Windows Server 2019. VMware tools: 10346 (10.3.10). […]
No storage snapshot in Veeam B&R after 3PAR failover
Recently I had a strange behavior when creating 3PAR snapshots in Veeam Backup&Replication after a site-failover (Peer-Persistence) occurred. Snapshot-jobs stop with error, backup-jobs using 3PAR integrated snapshots jobs are still running because they failed over to NBD. Snapshot-jobs were configured using secondary 3PAR for snapshots too – see more information here. Management console showed the following error for snapshot-jobs: VM VM name does not meet […]
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