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Hi All,

We have a Customer just using Acronis backup advanced 11.5 Server on windows server 2012R2. They would like to protect some VM Guest (VMware). However, Two VM Backup plan are failed. Can someone help to us solve this problem.

Command 'Running backup plan 'XXX'' has failed.
Additional info:
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Error code: 61
Module: 309
LineInfo: 4a8728dc8a1c9510
Fields:  $module : mms_bundle_glx_pic_43759
Message: Command 'Running backup plan 'XXX'' has failed.
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Error code: 41
Module: 307
LineInfo: e6792a5ee190dda6
Fields:  $module : agent_protection_addon_glx_pic_43759
Message: Failed to execute the command.
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Error code: 43
Module: 307
LineInfo: e873a234106e3488
Fields:  $module : agent_protection_addon_glx_pic_43759
Message: ResolveBackupSetCommand: Failed to execute the command.
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Error code: 15
Module: 331
LineInfo: 92b7c14be2b74795
Fields:  $module : virt_gtob_addon_glx_pic_43759
Message: Error occurred while resolving GXT Item.
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Error code: 15
Module: 331
LineInfo: 494069d8c09a9858
Fields:  $module : virt_gtob_addon_glx_pic_43759
Message: Error occurred while resolving GXT Item.
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Error code: 111
Module: 83
LineInfo: 41aa269c04906136
Fields:  $module : esx_srv_glx_pic_43759
Message: Requested host 'ha-host' cannot be found.
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Error code: 96
Module: 83
LineInfo: 41aa269c049061e2
Fields:  $module : esx_srv_glx_pic_43759
Message: There is no connection to the virtualization server.
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Best Regards,

Cody

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Hi Cody,

Such problem may appear when there are too many NBD (network block device) connections established to the ESXi host which VMs are being backed up. There is an NBD connection opened for each virtual disk and VMware ESXi host has certain limitations to these connections:

Quote from http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vddk55_programming.pdf

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NFC Session Limits
NBD employs the VMware network file copy (NFC) protocol. Table 3‐4 shows limits on the number of network
connections for various host types. VixDiskLib_Open() uses one connection for every virtual disk that it
accesses on an ESX/ESXi host. VixDiskLib_Clone() also requires a connection. It is not possible to share a
connection across disks. These are host limits, not per process limits, and do not apply to SAN or HotAdd.
Table 3-4. NFC Session Connection Limits
Host Platform When Connecting Limits You To About
vSphere 4 to an ESX host 9 connections directly, 27 connections through vCenter Server
vSphere 4 to an ESXi host 11 connections directly, 23 connections through vCenter Server
vSphere 5 to an ESXi host Limited by a transfer buffer for all NFC connections, enforced by the host;
the sum of all NFC connection buffers to an ESXi host cannot exceed 32MB.
52 connections through vCenter Server, including the above per‐host limit.

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Note that there is no such limit when backup is performed in hot-add mode (when the virtual disks are attached to Acronis Backup Virtual Appliance), so if you are not using Virtual Appliance, please do so. If you are using appliance and get this error then likely its a known bug (internal ID: ABR-82300), where hot-add mode didn't work for appliance. This bug is fixed starting from Acronis Backup 11.7 (update 6), i.e. builds 43916 and higher, so you should update to this build.

If the above doesn't help please contact our support team for further assistance. Remember to clarify the details of the environment, i.e. whether the 2 VMs you mention are the only ones which cannot be backed up, whether they can be backed up at different time (not within the backup window), how many virtual disks are attached to these VMs.

Thank you.

Hi Vasily,

Thank you for your fast response. I will tell our client to change the backup windows to different time first.

Best Regards,

Cody