Of the 57 VMs always the same 10 VMs fail
Environment: Windows Server 2016 with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5.4.2615
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Host
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The backup fails with: Failed to open file
[\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy:
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Failed to open file [\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy12\Virtual Machines\Snapshots\6C8E1C7E-D871-4C02-AF36-143CA3F5C6E7.xml] in readonly mode.
Failed to open file [\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy12\Virtual Machines\Snapshots\6C8E1C7E-D871-4C02-AF36-143CA3F5C6E7.xml] for reading.
-Create new job with affected VM
-Restart the VMs
-Restart the Hyper-V 2012 Host
-Migrated the affected VM to another host
-Check the with vssadmin list shadows |more
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PS C:\Windows\system32> vssadmin list shadows |more
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
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