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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)

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

Thank you for sharing :sunglasses:

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:

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

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.

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...

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.

Good to know Chris, thanks for sharing!

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

 

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