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Hi All, I'm having problem in backing up Windows Server 2003/2008 x64 Edition, Even after VMWare tools re-install and restart the VM I've make sure the following services was started and set as automatic running before reinstalling VMWare tools with COMPLETE options: COM+ System Application Distributed Transaction Coordinator after restart then I've turn the following services on and set as automatic running as well: VMware Snapshot Provider Volume Shadow Copy then i got the same error message: Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen virtual machine. and here it is in the Windows VM event viewer log: Event Type: Error Event Source: VSS Event Category: None Event ID: 12302 Date: 21/09/2009 Time: 1:23:31 PM User: N/A Computer: RSA01 Description: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: An internal inconsistency was detected in trying to contact shadow copy service writers. Please check to see that the Event Service and Volume Shadow Copy Service are operating properly. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 2d 20 43 6f 64 65 3a 20 - Code: 0008: 42 55 45 43 58 4d 4c 43 BUECXMLC 0010: 30 30 30 30 37 32 39 32 00007292 0018: 2d 20 43 61 6c 6c 3a 20 - Call: 0020: 42 55 45 43 58 4d 4c 43 BUECXMLC 0028: 30 30 30 30 37 32 31 39 00007219 0030: 2d 20 50 49 44 3a 20 20 - PID: 0038: 30 30 30 30 31 35 38 34 00001584 0040: 2d 20 54 49 44 3a 20 20 - TID: 0048: 30 30 30 30 32 34 31 36 00002416 0050: 2d 20 43 4d 44 3a 20 20 - CMD: 0058: 43 3a 5c 57 49 4e 44 4f C:\WINDO 0060: 57 53 5c 73 79 73 74 65 WS\syste 0068: 6d 33 32 5c 64 6c 6c 68 m32\dllh 0070: 6f 73 74 2e 65 78 65 20 ost.exe 0078: 2f 50 72 6f 63 65 73 73 /Process 0080: 69 64 3a 7b 37 30 37 34 id:{7074 0088: 31 41 41 33 2d 35 42 38 1AA3-5B8 0090: 39 2d 34 43 44 43 2d 38 9-4CDC-8 0098: 38 32 31 2d 34 35 45 45 821-45EE 00a0: 41 42 31 37 37 41 35 30 AB177A50 00a8: 7d 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 } 00b0: 2d 20 55 73 65 72 3a 20 - User: 00b8: 4e 54 20 41 55 54 48 4f NT AUTHO 00c0: 52 49 54 59 5c 53 59 53 RITY\SYS 00c8: 54 45 4d 20 20 20 20 20 TEM 00d0: 2d 20 53 69 64 3a 20 20 - Sid: 00d8: 53 2d 31 2d 35 2d 31 38 S-1-5-18 any kind of help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, AWT

Hi All, I'm looking for your suggestion and advise in utilizing the empty unused Local SATA-II datastore for my VM. I've got the following ESXi 4.0 build 164009 and a valid license of vSphere Essentials license, therefore I could use VCB but the problem is that using NBD from the SAN into the backup server is way too slow :-| it took 55 hrs to fullbackup the whole 1 TB VMFS partition (D2D over 2 network subnet). and now I'm thinking that rather than using backup solution Is it possible to clone the VM on the fly to more than 2 datastore like clustering service fault tolerance? (in this case to local datastore and the SAN_VMFS) in case there is a failure in the SAN, the VM can run off the Local Datastore, well it doesn't have to be realtime though. or perhaps there is a VCB backup that can copy the VM from he SAN VMFS into the local datastore vmfs ? that is also possible. Note: The reason why I chose this configuration is that direct connection from the SAN into the ESXi servers without anything in the middle, this can eliminate the single point of failure caused by the Switch and also provide redundancy. each color in the iSCSI network is different IP subnet by itself. from the ESXi into the production network i put two cable connected to two different ports and then add those pNIC into same vSwitch for failover Any kind of comments will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi All, I'm now at the stage of creating a backup strategy for my current vSphere 4 (2x ESXi + 1x vCenter Server + 1 iSCSI SAN), but at the moment the purple arrow (which is the NBD mode backup to the backup server is running very2 slow around 243 MB/minutes according to the Backup Exec result log. (To backup 800 GB LUN it takes 55 hours.) for the VM which has got RDM partition attach into it, i can just make it a virtual mode so that the VCB v1.5 can do the snapshot and quiesce the EXT3 Filesystem. The reason in using the NBD mode to transfer the VM backup is that to make the backup process to run faster without encryption but it turns out to be slower that what i thought, if anyone got a better solution in using SAN mode or even HotAdd mode please share your comments and suggestion here. Note: The network between iSCSI SAN andthe 2x ESXi servers are different subnet (see the color coding) Blue cylinder indicates NTFS partition while the Black cylinder indicates the VMFS any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. thanks.