VMware - Snapshot error encountered (156)
I have a VMware policy configured using annotation query to select clients.
Yesterday one of the clients failed with a status code of 156.
Last night the same client completed successfully.
I noticed in the detailed status, I have error's relating to resource.
23/09/2014 18:00:52 - Info nbrb(pid=2888) Limit has been reached for the logical resource pd-dc2-nbumst.VMware.snapshot.vCenter.pd-dc2-vcenter.pdports.co.uk
What do I need to check/change to stop this from re-occuring?
Thanks,
23/09/2014 18:56:55 - Critical bpbrm(pid=106712) from client PD-DC2-CITRIX2: FTL - VMware error received: An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine.
This error looks to be the cause. Look at bpfis log with vmcloglevel = 6 for further logs. (see VMware for NetBackup Administration Guide for more information on vmcloglevel)
This error can occur when The I/O in the virtual machine is very high and the quiesce operation is unable to flush all the data to disk as more and more I/O is being created. There can be different solutions to this including pausing active applications with high I/O or restart the vmware tools service in the guest. I have even seen reinstalling/upgrading to latest version of vmware tools to fix.