[DRBD-user] Backing up VMware VM's running DRBD with VMware Data Recovery (VDR)

Pascal BERTON (EURIALYS) pascal.berton at eurialys.fr
Fri Feb 17 12:52:03 CET 2012

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


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.

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Objet : [DRBD-user] Backing up VMware VM's running DRBD with VMware Data
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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.

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