Unable to quiesce an application and granularity of logs

Hi

Can you verify are you able to take snapahot of virtual machine from vcenter or vclient you are not able to take snapshot from there itslelf it would be an issue from Vmware side

Thanks

Yes, I am always able to make snapshots from within Virtual Center.

Hi Glum.

There are no information about NetBackup version and VMware version and OS version.

I installed backup VMware I hope so version 4.1 by NetBackup 7.0.1 and 7.1.0.2 on Windows 2008R2.

For off-host backup VMware machine I was using snapshot technology. I need VMware Centrum.

Configuration backup VMware:
From NetBackup Administration Console is need follow settings:

- In NetBackup management \ Host Properties \ Master Server \ pbc1 we choice
'Properties' a VMware backup hosts. Here we set name of the 'master backup server' as name VMware backup host and press OK. This set for master server who will backup all snapshost from VMware Centre.
- From menu 'Media and Backup Management' \ Credentials \ 'Virtual Machine
   Servers' we set choice new 'name VMware centre' VMware Centre on port 443, as management for all VMware machines.
- Next we create policy for backup VMware machines

Policy has to set:
• Typ 'FlashBackup-Windows',
◦ Some storage for backup
◦ Pool

◦ Mark 'Perform block level incremental backups'
◦ Mark  'Perform off-hosts backup'

◦ Use: VMware backup hosts
◦ Machine: 'name master backup server'
◦ Options: ▪ Client name selection: VM hostname
▪ Virtual machine backup: Mapped full VM backup
▪ Transfer type: Try all types
▪ Virtual machine quiesce: Enabled
▪ Exclude unused and deleted blocks: Enabled
▪ Existing snapshot handling: Ignore
▪ Next is for VCB and it is left default  'Disabled'.
Press button OK.
• Schedule as Full and time windows.
• In Backup selections is put parametr ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
• Clients: Press New we got windows with 'Browse and Select Virtual Machine' . After some time we will see client tree and we can choice some clients

- Press OK.
 

Good luck.

Frantisek

Hi

Please ensure as per the link below you have got the things configured

 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH129724

Also ensure you have vstorage API is licensed on ESX

 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH158667

Thanks

Query is about Backup Exec not Netbackup

Hello, and thanks for your feedback.

The first link mostly concerns agents and registry settings, which are Windows-specific.
The majority of my machines are Linux or FreeBSD-machines, and I have exactly the same
quiesce-issues on those. I did review those settings and they appear correct.

For the second link - yes, I have provided an administrator account (the job completes
on most of my guests most of the time, but sometimes fails on a random guest).

I was unable to figure out how to check whether my ESXi is licensed for vStorage API, however.

...you already asked the OP in your first post to verify whether taking a snapshot in VMware was possible, and he stated all was OK...

Ah, you are absolutely right. When I was testing this, I didn't have quiesce checked.
The only message I can find in logs, however, is:

"The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 4 The error message was: Backup aborted."

Perhaps there's some place I haven't looked? I better browse some VMware forums for that.

Hi

Yes I had asked OP in my first comment but in this comment though I am asking the same , I have asked that in detail and by selecting specific option as below

 Try taking a snapshot by using the vSphere client as (quiesce checked, snap memory unchecked)

Thanks