UPDATE : Mistake corrected with red color
Hello,
I use VDR 2.0.0 with ESXi 5 HA cluster created with 3 hosts and FC SAN acting as datastore.
I've tried to backup VM with two vmdks - first 102GB and second 1,6TB. VDR does machine snapshot but strangely two delta files for each disk appear (00001-delta, 00002-delta) rather the only one (?). After that, it starts copying data from second disk then stops at 102GB and hungs up for a two/three minutes. Then for second disk new delta file appears (00003-delta) for a moment and right after VDR remove snapshot. ESX host complains that VM disks need consolidation but it gives an error that <unspecified file> is locked and can't finish it.
Running lsof on the machine hosting that particular VM says that deltas are being used by vpxa-worker process, so finally after killing it, consolidation is possible.
Backing up the VM is all the same wherever it's running - on the same ESXi host as VDR or the other. Another machines, e.g. GNU/Linux with 1,6TB vmdk backs up successfully.
Could somebody have any idea what's going on ?
Any idea highly appreciated.
Best regards
In the VDR logs message "Trouble reading files, error -3956 (operation failed)" appears and in vcbAPI-xx.log it claims that :
2012-07-11T08:16:22.967+02:00 [4C805940 warning 'Default'] The change associated with a property collector field parent is NULL
2012-07-11T08:16:22.968+02:00 [4C805940 info 'Default'] vcbAPI::propCollWrap::doHostSystem: Detected a availability state change for host 192.168.x.1: The state is now available.
2012-07-11T08:16:22.979+02:00 [4C805940 info 'Default'] vcbAPI::propCollWrap::doHostSystem: Detected a availability state change for host 192.168.x.2: The state is now available.
2012-07-11T08:16:22.988+02:00 [4C805940 info 'Default'] vcbAPI::propCollWrap::doHostSystem: Detected a availability state change for host 192.168.x.3: The state is now available.
2012-07-11T08:16:23.030+02:00 [4C805940 info 'blocklist'] Creating snapshot
2012-07-11T08:16:53.394+02:00 [4C805940 info 'blocklist'] Snapshot created, ID: snapshot-3490
2012-07-11T08:16:53.471+02:00 [4C805940 info 'Default'] Establishing NFC connection to host 192.168.x.3 on port 902, service vpxa-nfc
2012-07-11T08:16:53.890+02:00 [4C805940 info 'Default'] VcbAPI::Snapshot::Open: Attempting to access hot-add mode, in parallel mode.
2012-07-11T08:16:53.890+02:00 [4C805940 info 'blocklist'] PrepareForAccess: getting a hot-add instance in parallel mode
2012-07-11T08:16:53.903+02:00 [4C805940 error 'blocklist'] This VM [N3Vim18VirtualMachineStubE:0x61e4810] is not licensed for HotAdd
2012-07-11T08:16:53.903+02:00 [4C805940 info 'Default'] VcbAPI::Snapshot::Open: Exception trying to HotAdd: HotAdd is not licensed
2012-07-11T08:16:53.929+02:00 [4C805940 info 'blocklist'] Will remove all disks belonging to VM "VIRTUAL MACHINE"(vm-3274), Snapshot "snapshot-3490".
2012-07-11T08:16:53.948+02:00 [4C805940 info 'blocklist'] Remove clone disks successful.
2012-07-11T08:17:01.554+02:00 [4C805940 info 'Default'] VcbAPI::Snapshot::GetUnusedFileInfo: Could not obtain file blocks for "pagefile.sys" on one of Partitions of path: "[datastore] VIRTUAL MACHINE/VIRTUAL MACHINE-000002.vmdk", error: 32769
2012-07-11T08:17:01.555+02:00 [4C805940 info 'Default'] VcbAPI::Snapshot::GetUnusedFileInfo: "pagefile.sys" removed from volume "[datastore] VIRTUAL MACHINE/VIRTUAL MACHINE-000002.vmdk"
2012-07-11T08:17:01.748+02:00 [4C805940 info 'Default'] VcbAPI::Snapshot::GetChangeInfo: Processing 1045 changes
2012-07-11T08:17:02.117+02:00 [4C805940 warning 'Default'] VcbAPI::Snapshot::GetChangeInfo: Cannot look for changes past the end of the disk, disk size: 109889715200, offset: 109889715712.
2012-07-11T08:21:30.033+02:00 [4C805940 error 'Default'] vcbAPI::Snapshot::Read: Main read failed for disk [datastore] VIRTUAL MACHINE/VIRTUAL MACHINE_2-disk-000002.vmdk, error: 2338
2012-07-11T08:21:30.041+02:00 [4C805940 error 'Default'] RealPartitionReader: File i/o error ($1)