01-03-2016 09:51 PM
Solved! Go to Solution.
01-04-2016 02:01 PM
What's your Netbackup and vSphere version?
I know of an issue that when you upgraded your Netbackup to 7.6.1.x from older version in a vSphere 4.1 environment, the snapshot removal stop to work properly. The workaround is simply to upgrade your vSphere version, or downgrade your Netbackup version. There was still a confusion and debate of whether 7.6.1.x supports vSphere 4.1 or not, but I guess when the backups keep failing, you will need to go either the upgrade or downgrade way.
Also you can check out more discussions from VMware:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/430928?db=5
Basically snapshot removal is still a task of VMware, backup software is usually doing the backup and merely being the messenger (to notify create or remove snapshot).
01-03-2016 10:34 PM
01-04-2016 02:01 PM
What's your Netbackup and vSphere version?
I know of an issue that when you upgraded your Netbackup to 7.6.1.x from older version in a vSphere 4.1 environment, the snapshot removal stop to work properly. The workaround is simply to upgrade your vSphere version, or downgrade your Netbackup version. There was still a confusion and debate of whether 7.6.1.x supports vSphere 4.1 or not, but I guess when the backups keep failing, you will need to go either the upgrade or downgrade way.
Also you can check out more discussions from VMware:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/430928?db=5
Basically snapshot removal is still a task of VMware, backup software is usually doing the backup and merely being the messenger (to notify create or remove snapshot).
01-04-2016 06:02 PM
Hi All,
Thank you for the responses.
@Marianne: actually the NetBackup for vmware basically already running fine, but this particular policy causing the problem until it is too late causing we need to do the VtoV (because lots of snapshot)
@Watsons: Our NetBackup master is 7.6.1.2 (just 4 weeks ago upgraded from 7.6.0.2) and other media servers is still 7.6.02 ( we are actually in the process to upgrade to 7.7.1)
The VMware is version 5.5. I will look at the link you mentioned.
Iwan