>>We had a situation yesterday where 2 VE backups were causing the VM's to go >>unresponsive. No response to ping, unable to RDP, etc. As soon as the >>backup finished (or was killed in one case), the servers picked back up where >>they left off. They never rebooted, but you can actually see in the Windows >>event logs a gap where no activity happens. Has anyone seen this behavior >>before? VE is at 7.1.1.1, the Hosts are ESXi 5.0 U2, vCenter is 5.5, windows >>2008R2.
ooo! Haven't seen that one before. My basic VE debugging steps when a VM won't back up (all from the VM side): * check from VCenter that there are no outstanding VM snapshots for those VM's (trigged by TSM or otherwise) * check from VCenter that there is no current performance alert for those VM's * check from Vcenter that vmtools are up to date (it tells you if they aren't) * do a VMware snap from VCenter (If VM can't snap it, nobody can). If you can't get this far, it's a VMware problem.. Wanda Prather TSM Consultant ICF International Enterprise and Cybersecurity Systems Division
