Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Mark said: "Snapshot creation requires that VMware tools are installed". This is not correct (at least on ESXi4 and 5). "quiesce VM" requires VMware tools, VDR may require VMware tools, but snapshots do not. This doesn't affect the OP's problem, but the incorrect statement needed illumination. Dan in Atlanta -----Original Message----- From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Pascal BERTON (EURIALYS) Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 6:52 AM To: 'Mark Watts'; drbd-user at lists.linbit.com Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Backing up VMware VM's running DRBD with VMware Data Recovery (VDR) Mark, Snapshot creation requires that VMware tools are installed, which brings the sync driver onboard. "Cannot quiesce VM" means it is unable to contact the sync driver. Have you installed the VMware Tools ? Best regards, Pascal. -----Message d'origine----- De : drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] De la part de Mark Watts Envoyé : vendredi 17 février 2012 10:29 À : drbd-user at lists.linbit.com Objet : [DRBD-user] Backing up VMware VM's running DRBD with VMware Data Recovery (VDR) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a pair of CentOS 5.7 VM's running an LVM/DRBD/EXT3 Pri/Sec cluster. Since we use VDR to take snapshots of our VM's I naturally added these two VM's to the backup rota. Pretty much every night I get hundreds of errors in the VDR logs relating to the Primary, giving the message: "Failed to create snapshot for VDR01, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce virtual machine)" I'm taking a wild guess at this perhaps being related to DRBD; can anyone suggest whether this is the issue? Mark. - -- Mark Watts BSc RHCE Senior Systems Engineer, MSS Secure Managed Hosting www.QinetiQ.com QinetiQ - Delivering customer-focused solutions GPG Key: http://www.linux-corner.info/mwatts.gpg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8+HdoACgkQBn4EFUVUIO2jEgCfecWw3SEZBS8Of0QWdeDII4Kw sksAn13yrWX7+7Nz1katOuUfH/5hUbO8 =IQhD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ drbd-user mailing list drbd-user at lists.linbit.com http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user _______________________________________________ drbd-user mailing list drbd-user at lists.linbit.com http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user