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ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 (build 3825889)

This patch is reported to break Instant VM Recovery and all dependent functionality (SureBackup, U-AIR).
We have a number of customers affected and are opening a case with VMware while searching for workarounds.
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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Groan...just updated to that build last weekend...keep us informed Gostev.
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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That patch affected my environment. Luckily I was able to revert to the previous version of ESXi using these instructions:
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micro ... Id=1033604
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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Hi,

can you tell us more about the issue? Is the reason cbt related (I ask because I acutally have some troubles with cbt and vSphere 6 Build 3825889).

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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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We have a hot fix for this issue that is available through our technical support. Please contact them directly for details.
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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Short question, as we're still on v8: is a hot fix available for Veeam 8 or just Veeam 9?

Thank you!
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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Maik, hotfix is available for v9 only.
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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Thanks for letting me know! Much appreciated.
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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we didn't updated the ESXI yet .
is the patch gonna be available to the public soon ?
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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I haven't logged a call yet but I reverted the two DLL's that I was given as the hotfix as it added a whole lot of problems in my backups...reverting the DLL's cured the issues...so I'm wary of the hotfix...

I'll log a call and reapply the DLL's to capture the logs and the issues...
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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Nick, letting our engineers know about issues you've met after applying the hotfix will be indeed much appreciated.
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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Hi Julien, I guess it will be included in the next Veeam B&R update.
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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When will this hotfix be part of a proper Veeam release?
-= VMCE v9 certified =-
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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If you mean major Veeam B&R release (not v9 update), then it will be included in Veeam B&R v9.5 coming later this year.
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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Just a heads up, apparently this VMware patch also breaks CBT :(
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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foggy wrote:Hi Julien, I guess it will be included in the next Veeam B&R update.
thank you Foggy,
when are we gonna expect this patch ?
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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I only have 2 working hosts on this patch, 5 others are still on ESXi 5, 3086167. I have one ESXi6 3825889 that is currently unmanageable because the hostd service will not stay started. Apparently in 6.0u2 and this patch also have a bug in vSphere replication 6.1+. If you have a VM with multiple disks but you only replicate one (or some) of those disks, after some time whatever ESXi 6 host the VM is running on will crash hostd, and hostd will not start up until the machine is removed from the vmInventory.xml.

hostd.log message:
Panic: Assert Failed: "!repDiskInfo->GetDiskReplicationId().empty()" @ bora/vim/hostd/hbrsvc/ReplicationConfig.cpp:769

VMware QA at its finest... :roll:

Sorry to get a little off subject here, but the bottom line is, in my situation just do Instant Recovery to one of the 5 ESXi hosts still running 5.0, 3086167? Backups seem to be running fine for VM's on my two 6.0 machines.
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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Hi, is this fix included in "Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 2" ?
Thanks, Carlos Luna
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Re: ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6 breaks Instant VM Recovery

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Hi Carlos, yes the above-mentioned hotfix is included in v9 update 2.
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