Hi, This error message is very generic. You'll be able to find many problems leading to it.
How should the transport done between the vShpere host (if network, i.e. NDB) or Datastore (if SAN) and proxy ? If network, verify that the proxy is able to communicate with the host on port TCP:902. If SAN, see this technote : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21586729 How is the VMVSTORTRANSPORT option set ? -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON ----- Mail original ----- De: "Saravanan Palanisamy" <evergreen.sa...@gmail.com> À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Mercredi 6 Mars 2013 09:24:50 Objet: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE - Error Dear Team, Did anyone see below error while backup's vmware guest machine from proxy server. 03/06/2013 03:23:18 ANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine ''. TSM function name : VixDiskLib_Open TSM file : vmvddksdk.cpp (1745) API return code : 13 API error message : You do not have access rights to this file 03/06/2013 03:23:18 ANS5283E The operation was unsuccessful. I have 6 VM's and only 3 VM's got backed up successfully and rest of the VM's were failed with API return code 13. I would really appreciate if anybody help me on this issue. -- Thanks & Regards, Saravanan Mobile: +65-86966188