Hi All,
I have a VMWare VM (Windows 2012) which was configured with a Raw Datastore Mapped virtual disk which is a P4000 storage system volume. I wanted to configure ZDB (Zero Downtime Backup), so that I can create a snapshot of this volume, mount it on the backup server (Windows 2012, Cell Manager with Media Agent) and copy it on tape.
Unfortunately the documentation does not provide any specific details on how this needs to be configured, but I managed to get the snapshot created on P4000 system during backup, however DP is unable to mount it on the backup system.
The backup system has iSCSI connection to the P4000 system and "sees" the original volume from the application server (in "Offline" mode), but the snapshot when created does not have any servers assigned, and thus will not be able to be mounted.
I also see this error message in the event log from HP LeftHand VSS Provider:
"Failed to connect snapshot LUN , 0x80001012 - Invalid parameter Transport. (Transport)."
It looks like the VSS provider is asked to mount the snapshot on the backup system, but has some kind of wrong parameter requested and fails.
Has anyone seen this before?
