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cannot shapshot shared disk

Hello,

i have an VMware® Workstation 16 Pro

i did taking a shapshot. but it was failure.

the error message is cannot shapshot shared disk.

The guest OS is windows system(2016 server) and vnx file is as below.

and the guest OS is confiured MS-Failover cluster with three Disks (DTC,Quorum,Shared via ISCSI) 

Please anybody help me. i hope this problem is solved.

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.encoding = "windows-949-2000"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "18"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
hpet0.present = "TRUE"
nvram = "temp_w2016.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "soft"
powerType.suspend = "soft"
powerType.reset = "soft"
displayName = "w2016_WDB1_232"
guestOS = "windows9srv-64"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
sound.autoDetect = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.present = "TRUE"
numvcpus = "2"
vcpu.hotadd = "TRUE"
memsize = "4096"
mem.hotadd = "TRUE"
sata0.present = "TRUE"
nvme0.present = "TRUE"
nvme0:0.fileName = "temp_w2016.vmdk"
nvme0:0.present = "TRUE"
sata0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
sata0:1.fileName = "C:\kky_app\iso_images\Windows_Server_2016_Datacenter_EVAL_en-us_14393_refresh.ISO"
sata0:1.present = "TRUE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
usb_xhci.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.addressType = "static"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000e"
serial0.fileType = "thinprint"
serial0.fileName = "thinprint"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.present = "TRUE"
extendedConfigFile = "temp_w2016.vmxf"
uuid.bios = "56 4d d3 0a 18 d1 7b 52-f4 56 75 f1 37 44 e3 dc"
uuid.location = "56 4d 26 ad 70 60 70 29-9b d5 49 4c 64 6d da b8"
vm.genid = "3003274258318074257"
vm.genidX = "-323618105906351430"
nvme0:0.redo = ""
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "160"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "34"
usb_xhci.pciSlotNumber = "192"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "35"
sata0.pciSlotNumber = "36"
nvme0.pciSlotNumber = "224"
svga.vramSize = "268435456"
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "4194304"
vmotion.checkpointSVGAPrimarySize = "268435456"
vmotion.svga.mobMaxSize = "268435456"
vmotion.svga.graphicsMemoryKB = "262144"
vmci0.id = "704809987"
monitor.phys_bits_used = "45"
cleanShutdown = "TRUE"
softPowerOff = "TRUE"
sata0:1.startConnected = "FALSE"
toolsInstallManager.lastInstallError = "21004"
svga.guestBackedPrimaryAware = "TRUE"
tools.remindInstall = "FALSE"
toolsInstallManager.updateCounter = "3"
guestOS.detailed.data = "bitness='64' buildNumber='14393' distroName='Windows' distroVersion='10.0' familyName='Windows' kernelVersion='14393.4530' prettyName='Windows Server 2016, 64-bit (Build 14393.4530)'"
ethernet1.connectionType = "hostonly"
ethernet1.addressType = "static"
ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000e"
ethernet1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet1.pciSlotNumber = "256"
scsi1.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"
scsi1.present = "TRUE"
scsi1:0.fileName = "temp_w2016-0_QR.vmdk"
scsi1:0.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1:0.redo = ""
scsi1.pciSlotNumber = "1184"
scsi1.sasWWID = "50 05 05 6a 18 d1 7a 50"
nvme1.present = "TRUE"
nvme1:0.fileName = "temp_w2016-0_QR.vmdk"
nvme1:0.redo = ""
nvme1.pciSlotNumber = "1216"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
nvme0:1.fileName = "temp_w2016-0_QR.vmdk"
nvme0:1.redo = ""
nvme0:1.mode = "independent-persistent"
nvme1:0.mode = "independent-persistent"
nvme0:2.fileName = "temp_w2016-0_DTC.vmdk"
nvme0:2.mode = "independent-persistent"
nvme0:3.fileName = "temp_w2016-0_SHARED.vmdk"
nvme0:3.mode = "independent-persistent"
nvme0:3.redo = ""
nvme0:2.redo = ""
nvme0.sharedBus = "virtual"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
ethernet1.address = "00:50:88:3E:78:3F"
ethernet0.address = "00:50:76:2D:88:F6"
usb_xhci:4.present = "TRUE"
usb_xhci:4.deviceType = "hid"
usb_xhci:4.port = "4"
usb_xhci:4.parent = "-1"

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continuum
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Respect !!! - you are a true warrior type user.

Last WS version I would expect shared disks to work on Workstation is version 7.
And you even try that with the experimental nvme-disks !
Hope that you dont store important data inside this VMs - I would only use this for discardable data - if at all ...

Ulli


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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