My setup:
vSphere 5.0.0, 469512
4 VM Instacnes, all being backed up using Veeam 6.1
Using Veeam 6.1 Backup and Replication
Monthly Full with incrementals.
My backup jobs are failing on ONE of the 4 instances. A cruical one at that.
Veeam support indicated my snapshots are the cause which is not a Veeam support issue but rather VMWare's support issue. When I go into my vSphere Client, I see no snapshots in the snapshot manager. However, I saw this error in my events:
Warning message on Email. This virtual
machine has 255 or more redo logs in a
single branch of its snapshot tree. The
maximum supported limit has been
reached, creating new snapshots will not
be allowed. To create new snapshots,
please delete old snapshots or consolidate
the redo logs.
warning
Then I went into the folder in the datastore and saw all the Email-000001.vmdk and Email-000001-ctk.vmdk through Email-000255.vmdk and Email-000255-ctk.vmdk files. I then noticed the hard drive files the Hard Disk 1, 2 and 3 are using Email-000255.vmdk respectively.
How can I resolve? I read around Google I two options:
1. consolidate but I don't have enough space nor time for as I understand it could take days.
2. Create a new VM and copy the disks over, but which ones?
3. Use vCenter Converter to convert it to another instance, although it keeps erroring out at Checking Free Space at Destination after 30 minutes.
Can't I just delete all the Email-000001.vmdk and Email-000001-ctk.vmdk files?