Wrong Snapshot size alert with Cisco Hyperflex HCI

[Hoegimator]

case 02675149

Hello everybody

I'm writing here because I'm wondering if anyone in the community has a Cisco Hyperflex as primary storage. We have one since about a month and during the backup of large VMs (like Exchange), VeeamOne Reports a large Snapshot size of 1.4TB. We are running Veeam B&R 9.5u3 and vSphere 6.0u3

I made extensive tests today and I am pretty sure that problem is a misinterpretation of vCenter. I don't know exactly why/how, but before and during the backup (incl. alert from VeeamOne about 1400GB Snapshot) the free space was always the same amount, didn't change. I checked this in vCenter and also in the storage management.

Therefore the alert from VeeamOne Monitor in combination with Cisco-HX Storage Snapshot is not true.

Does anyone had the same experience?

Thanks
Joerg

[Shestakov]

Hello Joerg,
Do you mean "Snapshot size" alarm? You can suppress it for the time of backup job activity and check only if snapshots remain after the backup is done.