Cannot Storage vMotion VM with Veeam Backup Server inside

[DSafin]

Has anyone had this error while performing Storage vMotion action with Veeam Backup VM? The Message is the following "A general system occured:The virtual machine has virtual disk in linked-clone mode that prevents migration". We are using vSphere 4.1 with ESXi hosts and FC SAN.

Thanks

[Gostev]

Are you using Virtual Appliance (hot add) processing mode?

[DSafin]

No,just folder inside OS of virtual machine.

[Gostev]

I don't understand your reply. What Veeam backup job processing mode are you using?

[DSafin]

Virtual Appliance mode.I meant, I have not added any additional raw vmfs volumes to this virtual machine. In storage manager of my windows server system(veeam backup VM) I can see only one NTFS partition.

[Gostev]

Try to open VM virtual hardware settings and see if there are any drives are still attached to it. If there are, please remove them manually, and try again.

[DSafin]

There is only one disk attached to this VM.

[Vitaliy S.]

Dmitry, try following the instructions from this topic to resolve your issue. Hope this helps!