Relocation(Storage vMotion) of the backup proxy VM when using HotAdd transport mode to restore a disk.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• The backup proxy VM is relocated when VDDK is restoring a disk with HotAdd transport mode.
• The disk could not be detached by VDDK from the backup proxy VM after the restore task completes.
• We will see the below in the VDDK logs:

No disks to remove for (XXXX)” could be found in VDDK logs

Environment

All VDDK Versions

Cause

• When using HotAdd transport mode to restore the disk, VDDK attaches the disk on the backup proxy VM with independent-persistent disk mode.
• After relocation, the independent-persistent disk is renamed.
• VDDK cannot find the attached disk on the backup proxy VM and could not detach it automatically when closing the disk.

Resolution

• The disk needs to be deleted manually and the restore task needs to be scheduled again