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Replication job fails with "Cannot replicate disk because its capacity was reduced"

  • November 1, 2021
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Chris.Childerhose
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If you are reducing your disks on your VMs be careful as it can cause an error with running Replication.  The following KB discusses this and includes a solution -

KB4232: Replication job fails with "Cannot replicate disk because its capacity was reduced" (veeam.com)

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JMeixner
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  • November 1, 2021

Interesting issue. This did nor occur in my environments up to now, so good to know.

Thank you for sharing :sunglasses:


Chris.Childerhose
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  • November 1, 2021

Interesting issue. This did nor occur in my environments up to now, so good to know.

Thank you for sharing :sunglasses:

No problem.  I can see this happening to users since disk space is always an issue. :smiley:


marcofabbri
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  • November 4, 2021

Why reduce disks? Are sysadmin not getting enough of everyday problems?:joy:


Chris.Childerhose
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  • Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
  • November 4, 2021

Why reduce disks? Are sysadmin not getting enough of everyday problems?:joy:

Yeah they do. 😂. But data deletion may have someone want to reduce a disk.


Nico Losschaert
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  • November 4, 2021

If you are reducing your disks on your VMs be careful as it can cause an error with running Replication.  The following KB discusses this and includes a solution -

KB4232: Replication job fails with "Cannot replicate disk because its capacity was reduced" (veeam.com)

Hi @Chris.Childerhose , is this on vSphere VMs? I thought it is not recommended to shrink virtual disks in vSphere...


Chris.Childerhose
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  • Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
  • November 4, 2021

If you are reducing your disks on your VMs be careful as it can cause an error with running Replication.  The following KB discusses this and includes a solution -

KB4232: Replication job fails with "Cannot replicate disk because its capacity was reduced" (veeam.com)

Hi @Chris.Childerhose , is this on vSphere VMs? I thought it is not recommended to shrink virtual disks in vSphere...

Typically no you don't but this does pertain to vSphere.


vNote42
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  • November 4, 2021

Good to know Chris, thanks for sharing!

… Veeam uses very interesting VM-names in their environments :joy: