Veeam backup – VDDK error 13 (You do not have access rights to this file)
I have created a new backup job in Veeam Backup & Replication but it keeps failing to backup a particular VM with this error: Error: VDDK error: 13 (You do not have access rights to this file). Value: 0x000000000000000d…
vSphere 6.0 – create a new alarm for snapshots using the vSphere Web Client
We all know that snapshots can be dangerous if left to grow out of control – they will fill the datastore!. I always like to try and mitigate this risk by creating a new alarm definition to generate an…
Error: Invalid Configuration for device ‘0’
I have just had a VM move to a different host in a cluster (due to a hardware failure on the original host) but once complete it was inaccessible over the network. I logged on to the VM using the…
An error occurred while consolidating disks
Having received an alert that I need to consolidate disks on a VM I proceeded to do so. However, after an hour or so the operation failed with this message: The maximum consolidate retries was exceeded for scsi0:1 I tried…
Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed
This morning one of my VMs was reporting that virtual machine disks consolidation is needed, as shown in the screenshot below: I believe this was caused by a Veeam backup job, as there was also a snapshot size warning, but…