Job Fails Due to Quiesced Snapshot Creation Failure

Challenge A Backup or Replication job for a VMware Virtual Machine fails with either of the following errors: Failed to create VM snapshot. Error: CreateSnapshot failed, vmRef "vm-", timeout "1800000", snName "VEEAM BACKUP TEMPORARY SNAPSHOT", snDescription "Please do not delete this snapshot. It...

How to Disable the Renaming of Reversed Incremental VBK File

Article Applicability This article is related to the automatic renaming of the VBK file, which occurs only when using Reverse Incremental backup mode. Note: Reverse Incremental as a backup mode will begin being deprecated starting in version 13 of Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information,...

File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore

Challenge The following error message occurs when attempting to create a VMware snapshot. File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore The Veeam Backup & Replication job fails with the following error: CreateSnapshot failed, vmRef "vm-xxx", timeout "1800000", snName "VEEAM BACKUP...

Veeam ONE Monitor SNMP MIBs

Purpose This article provides an MIB file that can be used by SNMP receivers that are being sent SNMP traps when configured as documented in: Veeam ONE Monitoring Guide: Configuring SNMP Traps. Solution Download Veeam ONE SNMP MIB MD5: 21E8DDEFEC6824CA20E8C862CDA76B40 SHA-1:...

Gaps in Performance Data Graphs, Missing Alerts, or MP Views Greyed Out in Veeam Management Pack

Cause This problem can occur if the agent's cache needs to be cleaned up. Please note that you need to ensure that the Operations Manager agent has been configured properly after clearing cache. Otherwise, the issue will reoccur. Please refer to the Configuring Operations Manager Agent Knowledge...

Reported CPU Usage Values Differ in vCenter and Veeam ONE

Challenge The reported maximum, minimum, and average CPU usage values do not match between the vCenter and Veeam ONE. Cause How the Values Are Calculated in vSphere Client VMware calculates these values with Hyperthreading Technology enabled. The VMware vSphere client shows that "Hyperthreading" ...

No data or incorrect data arrives into Operations Manager from the vCenter Server due to the vCenter Server statistics interval

Challenge No data or incorrect data arrives into Operations Manager from the vCenter Server due to the impact of vCenter Server statistics interval on the Veeam Collector operation. Cause This may happen due to various reasons, in particular, due to incorrect settings of the vCenter Server...

Hardware Status Differs in vCenter Server and Veeam ONE

Challenge One of Veeam ONE's monitoring features is monitoring and alerting on host hardware status changes. These alerts are good to know in case hosts in your environment have hardware issues, the issue will be notified in the alert, and the severity of the issue by VMware's color scale Yellow ...

Configuring Operations Manager agent

Challenge No performance data regarding VMware objects is available in SCOM, or gaps or dotted lines are visible in Performance views. Cause If the collection is configured correctly, but performance data is missing from the Operations Manager console, the issue may be related to the Health...