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I read that old thread about veeam B&R and independent disks. Apr 29, 2016 · VMware Tools is the current version on VM's being backed up and on the Veeam Proxies (but Veeam B&R server is not a VM) DataStore has sufficient space for snapshots VM's are all the latest hardware version with no disk being created in v8 then moved to v7 VM A single job fails with hot add thus not breaching 16 disks per SCSI controller May 19, 2021 · It seems like some of the hot added disks were not disconnected from the proxy correctly - but we see no error in the job logs for those VMs. Aug 18, 2011 · Re: Skip Calculating Digests and Just Redo thee Replication. Jul 19, 2011 · HotAdd may fail if any disk was created with a newer hardware version than the VM being backed up. Solution Requirements and Limitations Jul 19, 2011 · HotAdd may fail if any disk was created with a newer hardware version than the VM being backed up. Solution Requirements and Limitations Mar 26, 2011 · Re: Hot add is not supported for this disk strange. g. Re-add the base disk to the VM. Feb 10, 2021 · Not sure if this somewhere pointed at, but if you have "Unable to hot add source disk, failing over to network mode" error on backup or replication - check whether credendials used to access vCenter server are in domain\username format or username@domain format. Network Jul 19, 2011 · HotAdd may fail if any disk was created with a newer hardware version than the VM being backed up. ) disks online manually, within the VM, using Administration Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. It doesn't exactly mean anything is wrong. Backup and restore of IDE disks in the Virtual Appliance mode is not supported. [Warning] Server-Name all stuck VM snapshot consolidation attempts have failed. Dec 20, 2022 · Check on the vcenter and klick on the ESXi host. Veeam KB1775 - Removing Stuck VMDK’s from the Veeam Proxy If not, I would wait for Veeam Support or cancel the stop anyway, remove the stuck vm disks and start the stop again. Anyhow, you can manually remove those disks from Veeam machine configuration (hit X by disk name tab, than Ok). If you want to use HotAdd: Use Proxy in "Auto" or "Virtual Appliance mode" => Set Failover to backup from VM snapshot to enabled. Apr 24, 2014 · Solution. What FQDN name is listed there (even when you have added the ESXi by IP, the backup APIs will use the FQDN. • Hot Add may fail if the VM you are trying to back up and the proxy server are in different clusters. To resolve, upgrade the hardware version of the VM. Physical-mode RDMs are. That is, for EACH disk of the target, the Veeam server first hot-adds ALL the target VM disks, backs up one disk, detaches all the added disks, then proceeds to the next starting the whole procedure over. We also have analyzed our infra and Aug 25, 2011 · This article documents the procedure for manually performing hotadd to test whether a Veeam Backup Proxy can attach a VM's base disks. Solution Requirements and Limitations Jun 27, 2022 · I've added 2 vSphere VMs as VMware backup proxy in Veeam, to use them in hotadd mode. Proxies consume resources on vSphere cluster. Is there any known issue for that in the latest release? Case 04815996 Dec 12, 2011 · Re: Hot add not supported by source disk. Dec 13, 2022 · Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard. Digest calculation is required to do an incremental pass and detect what data is missing in the target Jan 19, 2016 · Re: Slow Backup Speed (7-30 MB/s) by PTide » Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:15 pm. 14) have manual rescan option but on Windows you're just Mar 24, 2016 · Because this is normally a high I/O VM I decided to test out storage snapshots. Repeat for any additional virtual disks on that VM. So no way that this is a problem on VMware's side. Veteran. 9+ (I think, or was it 4. rfssit. have an esx cluster with a vm which acts as proxy vm (server 2012 R2). Jan 11, 2020 · Re: how can remove hotadd disks after backup finished. this post. virtual-mode RDM size is 2 TB minus 512 B. This means that no storage snapshot processing is used and just regular Veeam enhanced HotAdd processing. You can use existing Windows VMs as proxies to save licensing. For example, if a disk was moved from a hardware version 8 VM to a hardware version 7 VM. Veeam ONE v7 has a predefined alarm for max job duration, that you can use to control your backup window. Solution Requirements and Limitations Mar 16, 2012 · The iSCSI initiator in the Veeam proxy needs to be configured with the iSCSI targets (usually just the IP address of the SAN controller) in the local iSCSI initiator, much like that of the VMware ESX (i) hosts. No more stuck snapshots. V12 Backup stuck in 90 percent. Apr 18, 2022 · If you use hot add, the vmdk will be mounted to the virtual proxy you have and data the is transferred via LAN to the repository. This occurs only for Spain and Switzlerand. Sep 6, 2019 · Click "Continue" on the warning about checkpoints. Is there any known issue for that in the latest release? Case 04815996 Feb 10, 2021 · Not sure if this somewhere pointed at, but if you have "Unable to hot add source disk, failing over to network mode" error on backup or replication - check whether credendials used to access vCenter server are in domain\username format or username@domain format. Jul 12, 2018 · All the VM's that is slow goes like this in the log, all of them stuck on hot adding the disk, and it fails over to NBD mode and processes them fairly quickly: 17-07-2018 21:35:24 :: Using backup proxy VMware Backup Proxy for disk Hard disk 1 [hotadd] 17-07-2018 22:47:36 :: Unable to hot add source disk, failing over to network mode Jun 27, 2022 · I've added 2 vSphere VMs as VMware backup proxy in Veeam, to use them in hotadd mode. yesterday backup was stuck in win2012r2 exchange server Jul 19, 2011 · HotAdd may fail if any disk was created with a newer hardware version than the VM being backed up. Solution Requirements and Limitations Oct 16, 2014 · Reboot the Guest, run the Veeam job again To submit feedback regarding this article, please click this link: Send Article Feedback To report a typo on this page, highlight the typo with your mouse and press CTRL + Enter. May 19, 2021 · It seems like some of the hot added disks were not disconnected from the proxy correctly - but we see no error in the job logs for those VMs. vmdk this size beats me - i’d have the disk split and Jul 19, 2011 · HotAdd may fail if any disk was created with a newer hardware version than the VM being backed up. . My issue is after the VMware snapshot the backup hangs at the "Collecting disk files location data" stage for a long time. I have two servers to backup. Check the logs here to see what is being reported as well to help narrow down the issue - C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup. 6885 comments. The notification can be one of the following: Your PC needs to be restarted to finish setting up this device: LSI Adapter Jun 27, 2022 · I've added 2 vSphere VMs as VMware backup proxy in Veeam, to use them in hotadd mode. Software is running, but the backup job is stuck in concrete. Is there any known issue for that in the latest release? Case 04815996 Dec 4, 2012 · All the VM's in the job are completely finished, but there is one VM stuck at 99%, which finished (reading all disks) a while ago, that simply does not even enter the "removing snapshot" phase (it has a single vmdk). 1) I use the Veeam Backup Server as a proxy (Under Backup Infrastructure -> Backup Proxies -> I have, Name: VMware Backup Proxy, Type:VMware, Host:This server) Currently your proxy works in nbd-mode, which considered to be the slowest. » Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:39 pm. I restarted veeam, I restarted veeam services and backup server, nothing helped, its stuck. Make sure no backups are running at this time. The maximum. Disables CBT on backup proxy server. It looks strange and requires a check, as Veeam should automatically remove said disks after backup completion. As noted NBD mode is the primary method used if no other can be. Sep 21, 2022 · Veeam support provided some interesting optimizing ideas to try to debug the hot-add problem, but we have moved to direct SAN. Is there any known issue for that in the latest release? Case 04815996 Apr 24, 2009 · Right now that veeam is runnning a full backup and the first 3 disks are backuped, and 2 disk are still being backuped. Is there any known issue for that in the latest release? Case 04815996 Jun 27, 2016 · As you know, snapshot hunter sends out warning emails if a VM has some stuck / orphaned snapshots, e. After that, if hotadd mode keeps failing over to the network mode, then yes, you need to deploy virtual proxy server in each datacenter. 5 this will change to 64TB - though why you would want a . I do note something potentially interesting. You can add disks and change their sizes but VM doesn't notice it until restart. Aug 8, 2016 · The hot add process is slow to start due to changes to configuration to run (one-two minutes per VM) which can add up. Jun 27, 2022 · I've added 2 vSphere VMs as VMware backup proxy in Veeam, to use them in hotadd mode. Nov 30, 2020 · this post. As Harvey stated. • Virtual Appliance backup job fails after you’ve cloned or restored your VBR server. The Backup in italy runs very well. For the second time in two days backup is stuck at 90 or 91 percent. 0 and later. albertwt. supported up to 64 TB. Solution Requirements and Limitations Jul 11, 2013 · Re: Job stuck on hard disk read by Vitaliy S. by Sethbartlett » Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:25 am. For the 10TB drive the task seems to take 1-2 hours. As documented in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: [For Microsoft Windows proxy] Before running a data protection task, Veeam Backup & Replication disables the volume automount feature, and it remains disabled after the data Aug 25, 2011 · This article documents the procedure for manually performing hotadd to test whether a Veeam Backup Proxy can attach a VM's base disks. In all the VMware backup jobs we have the same error message, regardless of the guest OS, virtual disk controller, or datastore conectivity (FC scsi or nvme-Of). The reason for that is incorrect UUID reference for Veeam May 19, 2021 · It seems like some of the hot added disks were not disconnected from the proxy correctly - but we see no error in the job logs for those VMs. So the behavior of failing over to Network mode is expected. Restart the Veeam Service and the Veeam vcenter Cache Service (don´t know the exact name for now, but if Jan 4, 2015 · Since a couple of days the local backup job stucks at "getting info from vSphere". Feb 21, 2013 · This may require additional proxy servers to be configured on each host in the environment. After 2 days, Direct-SAN seems OK. At this point, the Veeam proxy can communicate directly to the VMFS volumes for the backup (and replication) process. Check if you can PING this FQDN from Veeam Backup server and from the Veeam Proxy. Since you restarted the services? Then I would cancel the job, remove the hotadded disks from the proxy and try the job again. (Read as more IO to Source Data Store and load on Storage infra). The bandwith is with 2 Mbit/s nearly the same for all locations. Solution Requirements and Limitations May 19, 2021 · It seems like some of the hot added disks were not disconnected from the proxy correctly - but we see no error in the job logs for those VMs. both jobs do failover to nbd (for all disks, system and data) with the message: Code: Select all. proxy vm is configured to use hot add mode (failback to nbd if hot add is not possible). Nov 5, 2009 · First, you need to wait till CBT gets enabled once again. As the result, for each VM the job will pick backup proxy running on VSAN cluster node with most of the virtual disks’ data available locally. After starting up the VM again, you may have to put the second (third, fourth, etc. If the repository is on the same host as the proxy and connected via Fibre channel then it is still “lan free”. Have you considered using Hot-Add mode Jun 27, 2022 · I've added 2 vSphere VMs as VMware backup proxy in Veeam, to use them in hotadd mode. Aug 25, 2011 · This article documents the procedure for manually performing hotadd to test whether a Veeam Backup Proxy can attach a VM's base disks. by Shestakov » Sat Dec 26, 2015 2:13 pm. Apr 11, 2014 · good day. Jan 1, 2006 · In addition to adding basic support (as provided by other vendors), the intelligent load-balancing engine was enhanced to account for VSAN specifics. Just want to add that you can monitor all your jobs duration with Veeam ONE (part of Veeam Backup Management Suite). by Vitaliy S. Feb 10, 2021 · Not sure if this somewhere pointed at, but if you have "Unable to hot add source disk, failing over to network mode" error on backup or replication - check whether credendials used to access vCenter server are in domain\username format or username@domain format. Linux kernels 4. Supports any vSphere storage type. Backup and restore of SATA disks in the Virtual Appliance mode is supported if you use VMware vSphere 6. Now for disk 6 and 7 it tells me: Preparing backup proxy NL-HQ-VEEAM01 for disk Hard disk 6 [hotadd] It seems like it is stuck, because it is only running on 2 of the 4 available threads. 1 year ago. Is there any known issue for that in the latest release? Case 04815996 Jun 27, 2022 · I've added 2 vSphere VMs as VMware backup proxy in Veeam, to use them in hotadd mode. Proxies are set to "Automatic" by default, it may try to hot-add a disk and realize that it can't, so it fails over to network mode. set up two separate jobs for each of our 2012 r2 fileserver. Solution Requirements and Limitations Dec 13, 2015 · DonZoomik wrote: ↑ Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:50 am VMware's NVMe controller has an old specification version that doesn't support namespace hot-add nor size change. Solution Requirements and Limitations Mar 20, 2021 · How long is the job on 97%. The first support response was that there is a vCenter disconnect described in our logs. Is there any known issue for that in the latest release? Case 04815996 Aug 25, 2011 · This article documents the procedure for manually performing hotadd to test whether a Veeam Backup Proxy can attach a VM's base disks. Apr 26, 2013 · Same stuck disk. This raises a question: if an independent disk is not to be backed up, why is it being hot-added to the Jul 19, 2011 · HotAdd may fail if any disk was created with a newer hardware version than the VM being backed up. We will see during the weekend. If you want to use Backup from Storage Snapshot: Aug 25, 2011 · This article documents the procedure for manually performing hotadd to test whether a Veeam Backup Proxy can attach a VM's base disks. Otherwise data will travel over your 1g link. As of VSphere 5. Lurker. For whatever reason, vmware creates the VCSA with 13 different disks, and disk #12 is independent&non-persistent. It is still too early to say victory. Hi Ryan, If you want to redo (run active full), then you can force it via Veeam backup console by right clicking on the VM. Is there any known issue for that in the latest release? Case 04815996 Jul 19, 2011 · HotAdd may fail if any disk was created with a newer hardware version than the VM being backed up. This repeated process takes most of the overall processing time when the target has many disks with limited storage data on each. This takes the hot-add proxies out of the equation. For the OS drive 100GB the task takes less than 1 min. The API call to vCenter has not been sent yet (I checked). Sep 17, 2013 · The limits that apply to VMFS-5 datastores are: The maximum virtual disk (VMDK) size is 2 TB minus 512 B. The hot add process is slow to start due to changes to configuration to run. For the 60TB drive i have never let Aug 25, 2011 · This article documents the procedure for manually performing hotadd to test whether a Veeam Backup Proxy can attach a VM's base disks. » Sun Jul 19, 2015 8:19 pm. The automatic mounting of new volumes being disabled is an expected outcome for VMware Backup Proxies. This can happen for a multitude of reasons. This is great, but in my experience most of these are caused when the backup completes, but for some reason the disk is left mounted on the proxy. #1 source of stuck (Consolidation Needed) and hidden snapshots. Solution Requirements and Limitations Aug 16, 2019 · When you log in to the Veeam backup proxy server interactively following the execution of a job using the hot add transport mode, you may get a notification from the OS prompting to restart the server. Mar 16, 2023 · Hot Add transport mode, The Bad & Ugly :. du lm dh pr xy uk ze gv ti ns