{"id":2537,"date":"2015-10-31T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2015-10-31T18:46:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T17:46:18","slug":"esxi-6-0-create-virtual-machine-snapshot-a-general-system-error-occurred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2015\/10\/esxi-6-0-create-virtual-machine-snapshot-a-general-system-error-occurred\/","title":{"rendered":"esxi 6.0: &#8220;create virtual machine snapshot&#8221; &#8220;a general system error occurred&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve upgraded from esxi 5.5 to 6.0 a couple of servers. soon after i&#8217;ve discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/groups\/ghettovcb\">ghettoVCB<\/a> would fail on some of VMs while it worked fine on the others.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve started poking around and found out that for those VMs where backup failed i creation of snapshot would fail with the following error:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/esxi-failed-snapshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/esxi-failed-snapshot.png\" alt=\"esxi - failed snapshot\" width=\"1451\" height=\"68\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/esxi-failed-snapshot.png 1451w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/esxi-failed-snapshot-300x14.png 300w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/esxi-failed-snapshot-1024x48.png 1024w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/esxi-failed-snapshot-730x34.png 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1451px) 100vw, 1451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>while in \/var\/log\/hostd.log:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n2015-10-31T16:59:11.285Z warning hostd&#x5B;51B03B70] &#x5B;Originator@6876 sub=Vmsvc.vm:\/vmfs\/volumes\/532f2221-922224d0-90e8-d4a222b22b28\/server0\/server0.vmx] Snapshot::GetFile failed: A required file was not found\r\n2015-10-31T16:59:11.286Z warning hostd&#x5B;51B03B70] &#x5B;Originator@6876 sub=Vmsvc.vm:\/vmfs\/volumes\/532f2221-922224d0-90e8-d4a222b22b28\/server0\/server0.vmx] Failed to get snapshot files: One of the parameters is invalid\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>that led me to checking content of server.vmx0 where i&#8217;ve found reference to no longer available ISO file. i&#8217;ve removed the VM from the inventory, re-added it, removed the dangling snapshots [ it was not visible earlier ] and reconfigured VM&#8217;s DVD drive not to refer to non-existing ISO file. problem solved, backups and ghettoVCB work again : ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve upgraded from esxi 5.5 to 6.0 a couple of servers. soon after i&#8217;ve discovered that ghettoVCB would fail on some of VMs while it worked fine on the others. i&#8217;ve started poking around and found out that for those VMs where backup failed i creation of snapshot would fail with the following error: while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51],"tags":[76,58],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-unimportant","tag-esxi","tag-ghettovcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}