Backup/replica failing after update vmtools on vSphere 5.1.0-947939
Dear all,
after we upgraded vmtools on windows servers to 9.0.0.15210 all replica and backup jobs starts failing.
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Error code: 253
Module: 83
LineInfo: c7610e0a857bedf4
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Message: VMware error: 'Remote method call failed.'.
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Error code: 32
Module: 0
LineInfo: c7610e0a857bedf4
Fields:
Message: Awaiting task 'CreateSnapshot' has failed. Reason: An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See the virtual machine's event log for details..
Backup of old windows servers or VMs without vmtools runs perfectly.
Did you ever experience this issue?
Thanks
Rick

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Hello Peter,
we have ESX 5.1.0 build 799733 with vmtools 9.0.0.15210.
I will give a try to the update.
Thanks
Regards,
Rick
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Hi Riccardo,
The error is a general quiesced snapshot failure one: "An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See the virtual machine's event log for details." . It is thrown by VMware when either VMware tools cannot process quiescing properly or there are VSS problems inside the guest OS of the VM. The typical workaround is to re-install VMware tools in interactive mode (uninstall, then reboot the VM, then install again, and final reboot) to ensure that all VSS components are installed. You can check more details at http://kb.acronis.com/content/4559
Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis vmProtect Program Manager
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I've upgraded ESXi to build 1021289 and then upgrade all vmtools. Problems gone and now i can backup/replicate.
Best Regards,
Riccardo
P.S. thank you Peter ;-)
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you are very welcome, glad i could help you in that issue ;)
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Nice to see this working for you Ricardo! Good luck.
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Could it be that sometimes you need to create one snapshot manually once for the VM (you can delete it then), and then afterwards the backup works fine?
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