India Turn 62 today - Happy Independence Day

India turn 62 today. ON 15th August 1947 India was freed from British Raj.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Happy Independence Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Creating a quiesced snapshot failed because the (user-supplied) custom pre-freeze script in the virtual machine exited with a non-zero return code

During one of the P2V I got below mention error message

Do not panic, just reinstall the VM tools and retry to the HOT cloning again. This will work

Snapshot dependency on .vmsd file

There were a VM which has been spreads across multiple folder . One folder were holding .flat file and delta file. While other was holding all the snapshot.

We have to shift this VM to a different host in different site. We created the same folder structure at different site but still all the snapshot were lost. I started looking at each vmdk files (Every snapshot has its own VMDK to refer to) and corrected the file location /vmfs/volumes/<file_system_UUID>.

After fixing I was still not able to see my all snapshot under snapshot manager. Finally I had a look at .vmsd file .It has few pointers to old datastore

"snapshot0.disk0.fileName =". After I fix I was able to see all the snapshot.

Cloning a snapshot attached Virtual Machine

I am returning back after a long vacation. Thanks to my new family member.

If you want to clone a snapshot machine you have to be very careful because snapshots are lost on cloned machine. This was usual method which we were using for migrating from one location to other location in order to save WAN bandwidth.

The method which we adopted was to clone the VM's to a cheap filer (FAS2020) and ship the filer . This way WAN link will be saved. With VC2.5 U5 and all we can do live cloning of VM's For the VM's which has snapshot I usually copy it "as it is " to the filer and then do the same thing out of filer. Register the VMX and all set.

Copy using SCP was very painful so I found new way to do it TAR

Get inside the VMFS volume.

tar zcf - <vm_folder_name>/ | ssh root@<target ESX host name> "cd /vmfs/volumes/<target vol name>/; tar zpxvf -"

I became DAD again

On 18-7-2009 me and my wife blessed with the baby boy. Baby weight 3.34KG and every thing was normal by GOD grace. It happen just like that. For our first kid my wife spend around 14hrs for the labour but this time it was really different experiance.

Around 8:30 AM my wife asked me to take her to the hospital and 10:37AM baby boy arrived.

Almighty was very very kind for both us . HE did not want to trouble us

Thank You