we've been hit by this. using the vSphere sdk for perl, i wrote a script
that runs daily to find these and send out an alert.
here's the main loop.
Util::connect();
my $entity_views = Vim::find_entity_views(
view_type => 'VirtualMachine',
properties => ['name','layoutEx']);
foreach my $ev (@$entity_views){
if (defined $ev->layoutEx){
my $vmdk = $ev->layoutEx->file;
foreach my $vmdk(@$vmdk) {
if ($vmdk->name =~ /delta.vmdk/ && $vmdk->name =~ /_\d+-/){
$buffer = $buffer . $ev->name . " " . $vmdk->name . "\n";
}
}
}
}
Util::disconnect();
On 01/23/2014 01:38 PM, Ryder, Michael S wrote:
> 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
> <[email protected]>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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Bill Boyer
>> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:39 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> 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." - ??
>>
