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PatS729's avatar
PatS729
Level 5
8 years ago

VMware Backup host tries to snapshot itself and fails to Status 156

Hello, I have created VMware VIP. Query as follows vCenter Equals "Vcenter_name" AND Cluster Contains "ESX Cluster name" AND Powerstate Equals "Poweredon" AND VMHasRDM Equals "FALSE" The query ...
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Michal_Mikulik1's avatar
Michal_Mikulik1
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Hello,

I am not sure what you ask for:

- wanna get rid of nbu appliance in your VIP result lists? Simple use "DisplayName NQ" condition or something like that

- wanna get rid of 156 error here? But I think backup of nbu virtual appliance is useless by VMware policy. nbu appliance does not have supprorted method for dedup services quiescing. "backup" its dedup data by backupid replication to another MSDP server

Rgds

Michal

PatS729's avatar
PatS729
Level 5
8 years ago

Michal_Mikulik1 quebek Ofcourse i do not want to snapshot/backup my vmware backup host. I do not see backup host is in include list but still it try to snapshot itself and then the snapshot job is failing to status 156. 

Please help.

  • GeForce123's avatar
    GeForce123
    Level 5
    8 years ago

    Have you tried excluding the backup host in your VIP query? It's odd that you say it doesn't show up when you run a test query from the clients tab in the policy.

    Does your backup host reside on the ESX cluster that you are querying?