VSS issues when doing backups using VMware VDR
Hi,
During some consultancy projects @ SMB customers where we needed to install and configure VMware VDR to do some backups, we had some issues with Windows Machines and VSS. The result of the these errors with VSS was that the VDR backup jobs all failed.
Here some possible solutions (gonna try to keep the list up to date.)
- VSS could not be started on a Windows 2003 server
We had to reregister all VSS DLL’s, restart the server and everything was working again. (check this)
VMware KB Articles about possible VDR / VSS issues.
Cannot create quieced snapshots if backup or system recovery applications are installed KB 1009558
Troubleshooting Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) quiesce related issues KB 1007696
Because VDR is taking snapshots of your virtual machines this can also be a interesing KB
Understanding virtual machine snapshots in VMware ESX KB 1015180
