svMotion with Veeam CDP

Problem: svMotion is not supported with CDP replicas as it creates many extra files that are left behind thus breaking the replication. Solution: Currently the only workaround is: Remove VM from job/policy Remove replica vm from vsphere Manually move the files from datastore to datastore Re-add the vm in vsphere Re-add the vm in the Read More…

CBT in a VMware and Veeam Environment

If a situation occurs such as where you have to delete the CBT (ctk-vmdk) files from a VM and you get the following warning from Veeam on the next backup run:   CBT data is invalid, failing over to legacy incremental backup. No action is required, next job run should start using CBT again. If CBT Read More…

VM Still Working Despite Being Powered Off

Host:     ESXi 5.0 OS:    FreeBSD I had been having trouble with a VM which suddenly stopped (Veeam) backing up due to an "NFC" error: "Processing {vm_name} Error: NFC server [{esxihost.domain.local] is busy.  Failed to retrieve next FILE_PUT message. File path: [[LUN3] {vm_name}/{vm_name}.vmx]. File pointer: [0]. File size: [3567]." Veeam requested I connect to the host directly and Read More…