Hi.
This is not directly releated to GhettoVCB as we have modified the script to our needs,
however I suspect the problems we encounter will affect users of original GhettoVCB as well.
We have two installations of VSphere 5.1 where all restored Win2008R2 machines are
unusable as they produce a Bluescreen with code 7b on boot.
This is reproducable to both installations and all Win2008R2 machines we backup.
On further testing it seems that the Quiesce option is the cause of the problem.
We tried to reduce complexity to find the cause and had the following steps
which failed with the bluescreen mentioned.
- Plain vanilla VM type 8 with Win2008R2 Enterprise and VMware Tools installed
- Taking a Snapshot via VSphere client (Quiesce option) checked.
- vmkfstools -i testserver.vmdk -d 2gbsparse backup.vmdk
- Shutdown VM via VSphere client
- Deleting snapshot via VSphere client
- delete testserver.vmdk via datastore browser
- vmkfstools -i backup.vmdk -d thin testserver.vmdk
- Start machine via VSphere client
- Bluescreen.
I would be very interested in feedback if others using VSphere 5.1 and Win2008R2 are
able to successfully restore VMs backed up with Quiesce option and GhettoVCB.
Cheers.