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KarmaKuma
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Consolidation needed after recovery from storage snapshot with vm-tools quiescing

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Hello

I just tried out the storage integration with our Pure FlashArray. It works so far, but we get a funny thing when restoring VMs from storage snapshots -> VMware tells us that the restored VM needs disk consoliation right after successful VM registration in VMware. Doing the consolidation seems to wor fine, but it seems odd to me that we would have to do this after successful restore (from a Veeam point of view).

Is this normal? I don't think so as a quick search on google did not show up any usable results - so proabably this is not quite the expeced/known behavior :-)

What we do:
1. Create Backup Job with Backup repository "Pure Storage Snapshot (Primary storage snapshot only)", no secondary target (so Storage Snap only), have VMware Tools quiescence enabled
2. Run backup Job (success btw.)
3. Execute Restore -> Instant recovery -> From storage snapshot
4. Configure the restore "to a new location" as a new VM (no overwrite of existing VM)
5. Run the restore

Any input? Thanks in advance!
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Re: Consolidation needed after recovery from storage snapshot with vm-tools quiescing

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Hi KarmaKuma,

Just to confirm, the Instant Recovery session was unpublished (stopped) once you completed these steps? You migrated the machine to production or it was running as an Instant Recovered VM during that time? I just wonder if Vmware is flagging some of the Instant Recovery processes as the reason for "needing consolidation"

I think it would be best to open a support case and exporting logs from the Veeam Server itself (use the 3rd radio option and select the Veeam Server), and let Veeam Support take a look at the situation. Please be sure to mention the machine name you tested with so Support knows which machine to check.
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Re: Consolidation needed after recovery from storage snapshot with vm-tools quiescing

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The warning about consolidation appears right after the VM has been registered inside VMware by Veeam. The Instant Recovery session is still running (not yet "stopped" in Veeam by the backup operator). Usually we do our (Insta)-Restores as follows:
1) In Veeam: Run Restore task to new location with VM powered off and network connectivity off.
2) In VMware: Do a short VM check (connectivity off, disks present, etc.)
3) Power on the VM while it is still on the temporary "Veeam exported datastore".
4) In the VM: Check the system/services/data
If system/services/data is OK
5) In VMware: Storage vmotion to final datastore
6) In Veeam: Stop session
If system/services/data is not OK
5) In Veeam: Stop session and try a different backup/restore-point
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