VM Backup Succeeded with warnings
I am planning on integrating my Advanced 11.5 backup environment with my vSphere cluster. I have a trial ESX Appliance with a license on it. I am able to see my virtual machines and initiate a backup.
What happens next is that when the backup starts I see it take a snapshot of the virtual machine and mount it on the appliance and begin backing it up in the logs.
Shortly after the backup has started I see the following logs multiple times in my logs which result in my backup "Succeeded with Warnings" and however it seems the backup completed and my test restore was successful I dont know how well Management is going to accept a product giving warnings on every backup. I have searched the KB and Forum quite a bit and unable to find somone that has also had this error. Which leads me to believe people just ignore it but I would kind of like to find the option and disable it.
*VM that was backed up was a windows server 2012 R2*
Warning 1
Code: 5,439,488(0x530000)
Module: 83
Message: Failed to find a virtual disk that matches system device 'sdc'.
Warning 2
The SCSI ID of device 'sdc' is empty.
Additional info:
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Error code: 262
Module: 83
LineInfo: 7feed46a356d5559
Fields: $module : esx_srv_glx_pic_43800
Message: The SCSI ID of device 'sdc' is empty.
Warning 3
Failed to find a virtual disk that matches system device 'sdc'.

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I managed to figure out the problem... well the fix for me. Looks like SDC was the second HDD on the ESX Appliance with SCSI ID 1:0
in the DMESG Logs I was getting errors with the file system reading that drive.
While waiting for support to reply from the logs I gave them I decided to deploy a second ESX Appliance and test a backup with that. I received no issues with the ESX appliance.
Appears the fix is to remove the old appliance and build a new appliance and move all your VM's to be owned by the new appliance.
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