Shutdown Backup Proxy after backup job

[SYildiz]

Hi to all of you,

I'm new here and first of all I just wanna say hello - my name is Serkan and I'm a system engineer. so far so good.

I have written a PS1 script (in combination with a bat-file) which is able to shutdown a vm.
The script works as I opened it with the BackAdmin user in CMD but as a post-job script it ends up with a "time out".

Maybe some of you could help?!

The scripts:
stop_bvm02.bat:

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C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noe -c ". \"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1\" $true; . \"C:\Scripts\stop_bvm02.ps1\""
exit /b 0

stop_bvm02.ps1:

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$vCenter = "XXXXXX"
$User = "XXXXXXXX"
$Password = "XXXXXXX"
$VM = "bvm02"

Write-Output "Connect vCenter..."
Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenter -Protocol https -User $User -Password $Password

Write-Output "stop bvm02"
stop-vm -vm $VM -Confirm:$false

Write-Output "Disconnect vCenter..."
Disconnect-VIServer -Server $vCenter -Confirm:$false
exit

The idea was to reduce the ressource (CPU & RAM) and shutdown the backup proxies after the backup job is finished.
Is this possible? Or have some of you any other ideas?

Thank you in advance!

Best reguards,

Serkan

[SYildiz]

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[04.03.2019 10:08:50] <01> Info     [BackupJobPostActivity] JobSession 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PostActivity: 'AskService'
[04.03.2019 10:08:50] <01> Info     [BackupJobPostActivity] Session result is Failed. Checking if it is last retry
[04.03.2019 10:08:50] <01> Info     [BackupJobPostActivity] wouldBeRetried: 'False'. Need post activity: 'True'
[04.03.2019 10:08:50] <01> Info     [JobState] Updating JobState: [JobId: xxxxxxxx. ScriptCommandRunCount: 0]
[04.03.2019 10:08:50] <01> Info     Running post-job script
[04.03.2019 10:08:50] <01> Info     Executing custom command [C:\Scripts\stop_bvm02.bat], arguments []
[04.03.2019 10:14:22] <38> Info     Removing xxxxxxx:veeam@xxxxxxxxx:False::0:1 from cache. Reason: Expired
[04.03.2019 10:14:22] <38> Info     [Soap] Logout from "https://xxxxxxxxxxxxx/sdk"
[04.03.2019 10:14:37] <38> Info     Server thumbprint: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[04.03.2019 10:23:50] <01> Warning  Post-job script timed out
[04.03.2019 10:23:50] <01> Warning  Post-job script timed out

[SYildiz]

When I select the "stop_bvm02.ps1" as a post-job script it ends up with

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 04.03.2019 11:45:06 :: Post-job script terminated with exit code 1 

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[brichardson1991_obk]

Your proxy shouldn't be doing anything once the backup job has finished. Personally I would leave it switched on as it will be less hassle to keep switching it on and off.

[AlexandreD]

Hi,

I'm asking myself about shutdown proxy after backup job.
I have multiple VM Proxy in my infrastructure, around 30 (one per ESXi).
Each proxy can execute 8 simultaneous tasks, with each one 8vCPU allocate in the VM.

I'm trying to identify CPU ready issue on the esxi, even if proxy do "nothing" after the backup job, there is 8 CPU allocate, ready to use.
Does this really have any impact on vmware performance ? what is your opinion on this ?

thank you
Alexandre

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi Alexandre,

Does this really have any impact on vmware performance?

I assume it depends on your oversubscription ratio (if you have one) and some other factors like VM/Resource Pool CPU usage limitations and reservations.
I'd check for values of these first.

Thanks,
Oleg