Scenario: 4 clustered HyperVs 2008 R2 - A DPM20010 (a different physical server) backing up VMs using child partition snapshotsĪ virtual machine (VM1) (2008R2) whose F: drive is a CSV it has the 25% space free, inside the VM If there is a way, unfortunately I couldn't find it here and google is not really cooperative with DPM and VSS related questions !!Ĭiao All, I have a very similar issue and decided to reopen this thread so to allow googling the whole information. I have multiple volume storing multiple VM, apparently the problem occured when snapshoting the VHD stored on the J:\ Volume, it tried to store it on F:\, so I assume I can tell VSS to go on my new volume K:\ I had a free unmounted drive in the server, so I set it up, formatted it, now I have new shiny volume with 140GB free, is there a way to force the VSS Writer to use this drive to store the snapshot during the child partition backup, and not to use the volume I never really understood how the VSS Writer choosed the volume where to store its snapshot (wrong word maybe). When I canceled the child partition backup, all the free space was available again and I could resume my VMs
Last night during a Child Partition Backup on one of my Hyper-V VM, the Host paused all the VM because all the free disk space disappeared.ĭuring the day I removed a VM freeing about 40GB of disk space so this volume (F:\) was the one with the most free space.
