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Gigabyte's avatar
Gigabyte
Level 4
16 years ago

Vmware Snapshot creation Failed

Hi All,
Vmaware client backups are failing with 156 even if there was no previous snapshot .When we started the backup its not creating any snapshot and the backups are failing with 156 due to this . Below i have given my bpfis log for that failed client .Can anyone help me on this ??
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    16 years ago
    1. Make sure you can perform a Snapshot of the VM in the VI Client first.
    Snapshots grow in 16 MB increments. Do you have that amount free on the Datastore of the VM?

    2. Make sure the VCB proxy has access to the volume that the VM for backup is on.
    Check Disk Management, Rescan Disks

    3. Credentials for Virtual Machine Server are correct/valid. 6.5.4 has a handy Validate Credentials check in the Admin GUI
    http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/319313.htm

    4. VMware Tools installed and at least the latest: Status OK in VI Client Summary page for VM
    http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/320865.htm

    5. Test with the vcbmounter command on the proxy and remove NetBackup
    http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/315354.htm

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    1. Make sure you can perform a Snapshot of the VM in the VI Client first.
    Snapshots grow in 16 MB increments. Do you have that amount free on the Datastore of the VM?

    2. Make sure the VCB proxy has access to the volume that the VM for backup is on.
    Check Disk Management, Rescan Disks

    3. Credentials for Virtual Machine Server are correct/valid. 6.5.4 has a handy Validate Credentials check in the Admin GUI
    http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/319313.htm

    4. VMware Tools installed and at least the latest: Status OK in VI Client Summary page for VM
    http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/320865.htm

    5. Test with the vcbmounter command on the proxy and remove NetBackup
    http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/315354.htm

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    NetBackup for VMware: VCB backup fails with Status 156: Could not connect to ESX host
    http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/322989.htm
  • Now we have resolved the connectivity issue , Now the snapshot and backups are getting successfull.
  • Hi Green ,

    Thaks for your reply . And as per your advice i Have troubleshooted the issue with my backup and i found the following errors .