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Cannot create a quiesced snapshot

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Hi all,

 

Environment:

Fat ESX4.1U2

Dell Equallogic SAN

Datastores: 500Gb on 1MB block size

 

Bit of an issue to backup (Symantec BE 2010 R3) and replication to DR site (Veeam 6.5). (Our DR provider leases Veeam for replication, hence the 2 vendors in the equation).

 

VM: Windows Server 2008 R2 (SQL box)

vmdks:

vmdk1 (thin): 40Gb - DS1

vmdk2 (thin): 200Gb - DS1

vmdk3 (thick): 256Gb - DS2

vmdk4 (thick): 112Gb - DS3

vmdk5 (thick): 80Gb - DS4

vmdk6 (thin): 180Gb - DS1

vmdk7 (thin): 100Gb - DS4

 

We are getting now the following message when trying to backup or replicate VM - vpxa log: "Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen virtual machine."

 

Is this because datastore DS2 cannot cope with the size of the snapshot???? Just want to understand this instead of increasing the datastore size.

 

Forgot to mention that there are no tasks attached to this VM:

 

[root@HOST VM1]# vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc/get.tasklist 400

(ManagedObjectReference) []

 

Comments are appreciated.


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