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vCenter Server 6.0 and Backup Exec 2015 in some cases incompatible!

Today I’ve upgraded our vCenter Server from 5.5 to 6.0. Our BackupAdmin has upgraded the Backup Server one week before and all worked fine.

The upgrade on my nested vSphere test environment  works fine too. The backup and restore tests runs over the vCenter 6 with all the ESXi 5.5 and 6 servers. *damn*

Now in our production environment the upgrade runs an all services works. After starting the test backup for one virtual machine i get the following error:

Job ended: Wednesday, 17 Jun 2015 at 9:03:05 PM
Completed status: Failed
Final error: 0x200095bf - A failure occured while locking the virtual machine in place for backup/restore operations.
Final error category: Resource Errors

For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-8192-38335

 

Update 30.10.2015:

With Backup Exec 15 revision 1180 Feature Pack 1 the problem could be solved. Thx to Alex Millà for his comment. I also could reproduce it in my environment and the error is away.

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reclaim deleted blocks in VMFS on thin-provisioned LUNs

In vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 a new command was given to esxcli. With this command you can reclaim deleted blocks on thin-provisoned LUNs.

You could run the mechanism in production time. This might sound good…. Our maintainance windows gets smaller and smaller with every new service and if you could do maintainance when everybody could work is that great.

BUT one moment!

The ESXi host which runs the reclaim would get very high cpu usage and might costops VMs within the host. Especially the first run will take a lot of time.

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