We are running into a problem snapshotting a VM on one of our ESX hosts (vSphere 4 Standard). We get the lovely "operation is not allowed in the current state" and this is stopping us from backing up the machine via Veeam. I see lots of posts for this error but didn't find any that pertained specifically to snapshotting that didn't just suggest rebooting the box. It is a production server and I was hoping to avoid doing that if at all possible. Just wondering if anyone has any insights or clues as to what might be amiss here.
Thanks in advance and here is the solidly reproducable vSphere client message we get immediately after initiating the snapshot.
Create virtual machine snapshot
Schedule
The
operation is
not allowed
in the
current state
.
RX\tmunn
vCenterSvr.rx.umaryland.edu
3/4/2011 9:04:06 AM
3/4/2011 9:04:06 AM
3/4/2011 9:04:07 AM
Thanks,
Tim Munn
University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy