Production drive is getting low on free space

[tikitiboo]

Hi,
We have a hyper-v fail over cluster and we have several virtual servers running on it. For one of the virtual machine when I try to use veam backup to backup the vitual machine i get the error as:

Production drive 'C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1' is getting low on free space (4.9 GB left), and may run out of free disk space completely due to open snapshots.
Error: Client error: Banks pool is suspended.

I don't have any space left in the SAN drive to allocate more space for Volumen1. What other options do i have? is it possible to change the snapshot creating place? (I do have a USB drive connected to the host).

Many Thanks

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello Milindra,

Try to use this registry key, should help to suppress this warning message.

P.S. I would recommend to free up some space on your SAN, as 4.9 GBs can cause troubles with open snapshots.

Thank you!

[Gostev]

Vitaly, this registry key changes the threshold when snapshot operation is blocked completely. I don't believe it affects warnings.

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes, warning messages will still appear in the GUI, so the best way to address this is to clear some space on the production storage.

[tikitiboo]

Many Thanks for the replies. The problem is dont have space left in the SAN drive to allocate.

Regards

[foggy]

You can specify the location for VM snapshot files in Windows Server 2012 and later.