Hot-Add/Virtual Appliance Failures for Restored or Cloned Backup Proxy

Challenge A backup or replication job fails with the following error when using a VMware Backup Proxy when that proxy is attempting to use Virtual Appliance transport mode hotadd: BackupDiskTrad failed Client error: Failed to open VDDK disk MyDatastore VMName/Disk1.vmdk is read-only mode - true...

VDDK Error 3 Troubleshooting

Challenge A Backup or Replication job fails with an error containing 'VDDK error: 3 ' This most often occurs when forcing aVMware Backup Proxy to use 'Virtual Appliance' transport mode and disabling the 'Failover to network mode' option. Cause The most common scenario is that the disks of the VM...

How to manually test hotadd functionality

Purpose This article documents the procedure for manually performing hotadd to test whether a Veeam Backup Proxy can attach a VM's base disks. Solution Requirements and Limitations Before testing, review Virtual Appliance HOTADD Requirements and Limitations Review KB1054:Appliance Mode Hotadd...