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Snap short Error

Dear Sir /Madam,

I am taking live machine snap short and it give me error

"Failed to take a memory snapshot since the virtual machine is configured with independent disks"

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Malik Adeel Imtiaz

Netsol Technologies

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Malik Adeel Imtiaz Principle System Engineer NetSol Financial Suite NetSol Technologies Lahore Cantt Pakistan 54792
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Karunakar
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In case of independent disks you can take a snapshot with out the memory option., but cannot take a memory snapshot of independent disks.

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Karunakar
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Hi,

The snapshot faeture fails when you try to take snapshot of VMs which have hardisks from multiple storage, and virtual disks with independent disk feature.

This is not suported.

-Karunakar

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Karunakar
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If you want to take a snapshot of these disks , you need to change them to non independent disks mode.

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Karunakar
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In case of independent disks you can take a snapshot with out the memory option., but cannot take a memory snapshot of independent disks.

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