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VMP9 Invalid Credentials connecting to vCenter

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I have been plagued by this error for a while. It seems that when I disconnect VMP from the vCenter server and reconnect the error goes away. Over the course of several days, the error returns. I also suspect but cannot prove that VMP is making vCenter fail. When this error occurs I am also not able to log into vSphere client (web or thick). The vCenter server has to be rebooted and everything works fine for about 24-48 hours. I was a VMP9 beta tester and didn't have any of these issues until I updated to the release version. Please see the attached log file.

Robert

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Could be a similar issue to what I am facing sometimes.

Is it when backing up vcenter?

I am using the vcenter Linux appliance (5.1) and sometimes when I attempt to backup vcenter using vmprotect it kills vcenter

I cannot login, either fat or web client (but can using SSH)

If I reboot vcenter, all back to normal.

I have currently stopped backing up vcenter cause of this issue.

I'm actually thinking it's a VMware issue rather than vmprotect, as if you have a busy vcenter (there is a log file for api requests you can do a tail -f of and watch) its more likely to basically backup with API requests and it crashes the service

For me I have a VMware view environment, and several plugins and other things all servicing API requests and when its busy I can see it causing the issues, once it happens you can leave it overnight and its still crashed. I tried individually restarting the VMware services and no good.

I have a ticket in with VMware regarding this presently, will update if I find out more.

The log I was referring to is the vpxd.log when this is really busy I see a lot of vmprotect API requests and VMware view then it just dies

if using VCSA

tail -f /storage/log/VMware/vpx/vpxd.log

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Hi Robert,

From what I can see BL460c is right - the issue more has to deal with the specifics of the vCenter appliance. There was nothing changed between Beta and release version of vmProtect 9 which may affect such core functionality as the backup or connection to vCenter, so the issue has to deal with the snapshotting of the vCenter appliance.

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis vmProtect Program Manager

Thank you both for replying to my issue. We are using vCenter Server (Win2k8R2) but my troubleshooting process is very similar to yours in that I have stopped services and restarted but only a reboot will fix the issue. I will stop backing up the vCenter and see if the problem goes away.

Thanks,

Robert

This could be a system resource issue as well. Have you tried monitoring the memory and see if it consumes a lot?