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AAP failing on most VMs since v13 upgrade

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We did the upgrade yesterday to v13.0.1 of Veeam.

On our jobs that backup from vSphere 8 via VIX with AAP most of the VMs are now failing with the error below. We also are using VCD as the entry point for Veeam.

"25/11/2025 05:37:03 Failed : Unable to release guest. Error: VSSControl: Failed to freeze guest over Hypervisor API, wait timeout"

Looking at the logs it seems to be going in a loop of uploading the vix agent and trying to connect to it (at least that's my take on it, it's quite a verbose log and doesn't make 100% sense to me).

Some VMs do work in the same jobs leading me think for the others they are simply timing out attempting to setup the vix agent and do the snapshot.

Before v13 these were backing up fine. We don't use the persistent agent in these jobs.

I'll raise a ticket but wanted to see if this comes up for others, or if it's a known issue.

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Re: AAP failing on most VMs since v13 upgrade

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All known issues are documented in the sticky Top Issue topic in the main VBR forum and typically also have an associated support KB.
Please do not create forum topics about technical issues before opening a support case, as requested when you click New Topic.
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Re: AAP failing on most VMs since v13 upgrade

Post by Amarokada » 2 people like this post

Case #07898679 has been raised

Sorry I did this the wrong way around, but it's the day after some huge upgrades for us as a service provider so just trying to fire fight with all the avenues available. I see this isn't a current known issue from the 2 that are in the post you refer to, so currently it's just an "Issue".

On the plus side the actual upgrades to v13 have gone fairly smoothly, including for Nutanix which has changed things around quite a lot (no more vapp appliance).
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