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Jim-90
11 years agoLevel 6
All backup appplication that use the VADP api's have orphaned/zombie snapshot issues at some time. We started using VADP backups early on and have found the orphaned snapshot problem is getting a lot less,
The lessons we learnt was to:
- Keep NBU up to date as much as possible through patches and EBB's to fix VMware issues.
- Monitor all the VM machines for the presence of snapshots either from RVTOOLS (vHealth tab) or a script that lists all the deltas present in the environment.
We decided against automated deletion as it was too risky. If you can't consolidate the snapshots try cloning the guest, cloning forces consildation. We successfully have done this when there were a very large number (hundrerds) of snapsots for a box.
RVTOOLS is a good & free software for VMware reporting it will list other stuff like datastores and C: drives that are low of space etc if your software versions permit. Only requires a read-only VM account.
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