This warning is a "new" feature of vSphere 5.x -- prior to 5, you would not get any alert about consolidation being needed. It's possible this was happening before and you just didn't know it...?
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2003638 Did your site recently upgrade to 5.5? Personally, I didn't see these at 5.0 and now at 5.1 see these messages infrequently -- my current theory (at least for my site) is that this happens when an image/snapshot backup job is disturbed somehow, for example by a momentary interruption of network traffic. Best regards, Mike RMD IT, x7942 On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Prather, Wanda <wanda.prat...@icfi.com>wrote: > Hi Dude! > > Yes, I have seen that happen (although in my case it was another product > not VMware SRM) . > It doesn't matter what product it is - if there is *anything* else in the > environment that is doing VM snapshots - including humans, you have to set > up your schedules so they don't conflict. > Else sooner or later this will happen. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Bill Boyer > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:39 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM/VE and SRM Replication > > Has anyone using TSM/VE backups as well as VMware SRM for replication had > any conflicts with snapshots between the 2 products? We've had several > instances where VM's have issued an alert about Virtual Machine > consolidation needed. And just last night we had one of our file server > VM's have snapshots with invalid parents and the VM was totally > unresponsive. > These events seem to occur when the TSM/VE backup completes and the > snapshot is deleted. We are at VMware 5.5. > > > > Bill Boyer > DSS, Inc. > (610) 927-4407 > "Enjoy life. It has an expiration date." - ?? >
