Hallo,
first i must say, that we don't need a backup of the Exchange 2010 enviroment, this will be taken with NetApp SnapManager for Exchange.
But the OS VMDK files are on a NFS Datastore and this should be backed up by SnapManager VI.
But if i try to create a quiesced Snapshot of the VM i got this errors:
Das Gastbetriebssystem hat während der Stilllegung einen Fehler gemeldet. Der Fehlercode lautet: 5 Die Fehlermeldung lautet: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed: IDispatch error #8454 (0x80042306)
Das Gastbetriebssystem hat während der Stilllegung einen Fehler gemeldet. Der Fehlercode lautet: 3 Die Fehlermeldung lautet: Quiesce operation aborted
Das Gastbetriebssystem hat während der Stilllegung einen Fehler gemeldet. Der Fehlercode lautet: 3 Die Fehlermeldung lautet: Error when notifying the sync provider.
After i tryed to make a SnapShot i got this result in „vssadmin list writers“
Writer name: 'Microsoft Exchange Replica Writer'
Writer Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
Writer Instance Id: {a07f7d02-edb2-45a4-aa62-b1360f6067cd}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: Retryable error
Writer name: 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
Writer Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
Writer Instance Id: {4e8c2d55-eaa5-4d63-b680-2763f4a95366}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: Retryable error
And some other writers are reorting a timeout.
We tryed already to exclude the Exchange VSS Writers from the VMware Tools like described in the KB article: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007696
But this didn’t work perhaps because we have ESXi 5.0 and the article is only up to ESXi 4.1.
Is there a way to get a quiesced VMware Snapshot only from the operating system?
Best regards
Stefan
