Think it was this one, or one similar

Creating a quiesced snapshot of a Windows virtual machine generates Event
IDs 50, 57, 137, 140, 157, or 12289 (2006849) | VMware KB

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2006849

On 31 Mar 2017 22:58, "Kurt Buff" <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, this is a VM on vSphere 6.0. We back up using snapshots via a
> Barracuda 995 appliance.
>
> This sounds like the most likely explanation.
>
> Just for the sake of completeness, I took all of the GUIDs from
> 'vssadmin list shadows', and with the exception of the known GUIDs for
> the drives there was no overlap at all with the list of GUIDs from the
> event log.
>
> If you happen to run across that article, it would be nice to have,
> but I'm going to stop my freakout now and concentrate on supporting
> the year-end process for our finance folks.
>
> Thank you for the info!
>
> Kurt
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Tony Patton <apco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not at work so I don't have the reference handy, but there is a
> VMware
> > article for something like that.
> >
> > Is the backup taken via a VM snapshot and the timings of the events
> match?
> > If so, it's a known issue, blamed on VSS, and can be ignored :-)
> >
> > I've seen it in VMs with both NetBackup & CommVault as the backup
> software.
> >
> > It's consistent on a VM that it happens to, but another VM built
> identical
> > in the same policy may not have those events.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > On 31 Mar 2017 21:51, "Kurt Buff" <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Do those show up in the event log like this?
> >>
> >>      Warning,2016-01-13 02:48:37,Microsoft-Windows-Ntfs,140,None,"The
> >> system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may
> >> occur in VolumeId: \\?\Volume{38f28236-b991-11e5-80ea-005056b43cf4},
> >> DeviceName: \Device\HarddiskVolume15.
> >>
> >>      Information,2016-01-13
> >> 02:48:32,Microsoft-Windows-Ntfs,98,None,Volume
> >> \\?\Volume{38f28237-b991-11e5-80ea-005056b43cf4}
> >> (\Device\HarddiskVolume16) is healthy.  No action is needed.
> >>
> >>      Error,2016-01-13 02:48:37,Ntfs,137,(2),The default transaction
> >> resource manager on volume
> >> \\?\Volume{38f28236-b991-11e5-80ea-005056b43cf4} encountered a
> >> non-retryable error and could not start.  The data contains the error
> >> code.
> >>
> >> Kurt
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Miller Bonnie L.
> >> <mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu> wrote:
> >> > Windows Volume Shadow Copies?
> >> >
> >> > -Bonnie
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com
> >> > [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff
> >> > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 1:19 PM
> >> > To: ntsysadm <NTSysADM@lists.myitforum.com>
> >> > Subject: [NTSysADM] WTF? Way too many Volume/Disk GUIDs
> >> >
> >> > I've got a 2012R2 file server with some problems. It recently locked
> up,
> >> > and we had to force boot it through the VMware interface.
> >> >
> >> > It's got 13 drives with letters, plus the usual system reserved
> >> > partition.
> >> >
> >> > Here are the volume GUIDs from PS:
> >> >     # GWMI -namespace root\cimv2 -class win32_volume | select
> >> > driveletter, deviceid | sort deviceid | ft -auto
> >> >
> >> >     driveletter deviceid
> >> >     ----------- --------
> >> >     T:          \\?\Volume{0b58699a-c6d4-11e5-80ef-005056b43cf4}\
> >> >     J:          \\?\Volume{27499b01-b5b4-43d7-98ae-17dbd948607e}\
> >> >     G:          \\?\Volume{3e50ec99-13b5-4d52-8091-2feeb695943f}\
> >> >                 \\?\Volume{3ec25e24-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\
> >> >     C:          \\?\Volume{3ec25e25-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\
> >> >     D:          \\?\Volume{3ec25e29-a333-11e3-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\
> >> >     P:          \\?\Volume{410169c9-33c3-11e6-80fb-005056b43cf4}\
> >> >     X:          \\?\Volume{515ebcdb-5c2e-11e4-80d4-005056b43cf4}\
> >> >     K:          \\?\Volume{79470a07-567a-11e4-80d3-005056b43cf4}\
> >> >     I:          \\?\Volume{88aa852a-1610-4875-8265-bb3c0612e5ef}\
> >> >     W:          \\?\Volume{a94520fe-16c6-11e6-80f7-005056b43cf4}\
> >> >     S:          \\?\Volume{cba78efd-34cd-11e6-80fb-005056b43cf4}\
> >> >     U:          \\?\Volume{cc4e4794-f6ef-4141-980a-87a984c191b5}\
> >> >     M:          \\?\Volume{d1ddfc3d-fa04-11e6-8109-005056b43cf4}\
> >> >
> >> > After the machine was back up and running, I started combing the
> system
> >> > eventlog, and noticed something weird - there were a lot of volume
> GUIDs
> >> > that didn't match my list above.
> >> >
> >> > I finally exported the system event log as a CSV file (it goes back as
> >> > far as January of 2016), and cut and sorted the output, and found 2891
> >> > unique volume GUIDs!
> >> >
> >> > That's just insane, and I have no explanation for this.
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone here have a clue to what this is about?
> >> >
> >> > Kurt
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>

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