Symptoms:
An error occurred while taking a snapshot: msg.fileio.generic.|
An error occurred while saving the snapshot: msg.fileio.generic.
vmware.log
file, you see entries similar to:| vmx| I120: VigorTransportProcessClientPayload: opID=254F67FE-00000087-ce-3b-ab7a seq=6800308: Receiving Snapshot.Take request.
| vmx| I120: SnapshotVMX_TakeSnapshot start: 'test', deviceState=0, lazy=0, logging=0, quiesced=0, forceNative=0, tryNative=0, saveAllocMaps=0 cb=2C30A630, cbData=325CA180
| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-LIB_CREATE : DiskLibCreateCreateParam: vmfsSparse grain size is set to 1 for '/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME-000001.vmdk'
| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotPrepareTakeDoneCB: Prepare phase complete (The operation completed successfully).
| vcpu-0| I120: Destroying virtual dev for scsi0:0 vscsi=43140
vcpu-0| I120: VMMon_VSCSIStopVports: No such target on adapter
vcpu-0| I120: SnapshotVMXTakeSnapshotWork: Transition to mode 0.
vcpu-0| I120: Closing all the disks of the VM.
vcpu-0| I120: Closing disk scsi0:0
vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Shutting down change tracking for untracked fid 532940586.
| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Successfully disconnected CBT node.
| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME-flat.vmdk" : closed.
vcpu-0| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoReadEx: Creating new snapshot dictionary, '/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmsd.usd'.
| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME-flat.vmdk" : open successful (65557) size = 64424509440, hd = 0. Type 3
| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB_BLOCKTRACK : Resuming change tracking.
vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME-flat.vmdk" : closed.
| vcpu-0| W110: File_GetFreeSpace: Couldn't statfs /vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME
| vcpu-0| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotCheckSpaceAndSnapshotNum: Error getting the free space on the storage disk
vcpu-0| I120: Checkpoint_Unstun: vm stopped for 1187674 us
| vcpu-0| I120: SCSI: switching scsi0 to push completion mode
| vcpu-0| A115: ConfigDB: Setting scsi0:0.redo = ""
| vcpu-0| I120: DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk' persistent R[]
vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME-flat.vmdk" : open successful (10) size = 64424509440, hd = 571017004. Type 3
vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "VMNAME-flat.vmdk" (0xa)
vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk' (0xa): vmfs, 125829120 sectors / 60 GB.
| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB_BLOCKTRACK : Resuming change tracking.
| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Initializing ESX kernel change tracking for fid 571017004.
| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Successfuly created cbt node 2209072c-cbt.
| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Opening cbt node /vmfs/devices/cbt/2209072c-cbt
vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-LIB : Opened "/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk" (flags 0xa, type vmfs).
| vcpu-0| I120: DISK: Disk '/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk' has UUID '60 00 c2 97 fb 03 7d b1-58 b2 a5 88 31 a7 f8 7b'
vcpu-0| I120: DISK: OPEN '/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk' Geo (7832/255/63) BIOS Geo (0/0/0)
vcpu-0| I120: Creating virtual dev for scsi0:0
| vcpu-0| I120: DumpDiskInfo: scsi0:0 createType=11, capacity = 125829120, numLinks = 1, allocationType = 2
vcpu-0| I120: SCSIDiskESXPopulateVDevDesc: Using FS backend
| vcpu-0| I120: DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : geometry=7832/255/63
vcpu-0| I120: VMXNET3 user: Ethernet0 Driver Info: version = 402822 gosBits = 2 gosType = 2, gosVer = 24848, gosMisc = 212
vcpu-0| I120: SnapshotVMXTakeSnapshotWork: Transition to mode 1.
vcpu-0| I120: SnapshotVMXTakeSnapshotComplete: Done with snapshot 'test': 0
vcpu-0| I120: SnapshotVMXTakeSnapshotComplete: Snapshot 0 failed: Error (3).
vcpu-0| I120: VigorTransport_ServerSendResponse opID=254F67FE-00000087-ce-3b-ab7a seq=6800308: Completed Snapshot request.
vcpu-0| I120: HBACommon: First write on scsi0:0.fileName='/vmfs/volumes/557050be-########-####-##########3f/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk'
vcpu-0| I120: DDB: "longContentID" = "ef8f023c4c6a95edaac40b89b58106af" (was "420f4698ff23a48a836fcf7908fb9968")
vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CHAIN : DiskChainUpdateContentID: old=0x8fb9968, new=0xb58106af (ef8f023c4c6a95edaac40b89b58106af)
vmx| I120: SSL: EOF in violation of protocol
vmx| I120: SOCKET 2436 (132) recv error 0: Success
vmx| I120: Vix: [18917824 mainDispatch.c:2879]: VMAutomation: Connection Error (1) on connection 2433.
vmx| I120: VigorTransportProcessClientPayload: opID=254F67FE-00000112-9e-8f-b0d9 seq=6800667: Receiving Snapshot.Take request.
cd /vmfs/volumes/Datastore/
df -h
This is mainly noticed in thin provisioned LUNs
Failed to copy one or more disks.
A fatal internal error occurred. See the virtual machine's log for more details.
Failed waiting for data. Error 195887107. Not found.