SureBackup error: Insufficient disk space on datastore

[rmandrews7]

Hello All,

I am trying to spin up a sure backup job and I am receiving the following error:

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Error: Insufficient disk space on datastore ' 

I have plenty of disk to work with, has anyone run into this error before? Any ideas?

Thanks!

Ryan

[Gostev]

What datastore are you looking at when checking for available disk space?

[rmandrews7]

Backup Infrastructure>Backup Repositories.

[Gostev]

You need to be looking at VMFS datastore that you have selected for redo logs (Virtual Lab settings).

[rmandrews7]

What is the recommended amount of space we need for the redo logs? We currently have 27GB free on the datastore and are trying to spin up about 5 vm's.

[foggy]

Taking into account the recommendation for Instant Recovery, which is at least 10GB for each recovered VM, I would say that it is roughly something like 10*(number of VMs in the Application Group + 1). So probably, 27GB is not enough to hold 5 VMs simultaneously.

One of the customers reported previously that it "needs to be fairly large at least 100GB in order to run multiple VMs in SureBackup".

[rmandrews7]

very good, thanks for the recommendation!