Symptoms
- VMware VMs are configured on VSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) datastores
- VM backups complete successfully
- VM Image Restores fail with the following error logged in the recover session log:
2023-08-15T11:21:36Z TRACE: [@(#) Build number: 151] VMDK backing filename is being reconfigured to be: "[vsanDatastore] VM_NAME/VM_NAME_1.vmdk" with the size 53687091200
2023-08-15T11:21:36Z INFO: [@(#) Build number: 151] Task to reconfigure new vm started....
2023-08-15T11:21:36Z ERROR: [@(#) Build number: 151] Task to reconfigure new VM failed with error The virtual disk is either corrupted or not a supported format.
Cause
VSAN ESA is not currently supported by NetWorker vProxy
Resolution
RPQ S06709720 was filed to have VSAN ESA tested by NetWorker engineering. If you are interested in this functionality, reach out to your Dell sales or account team with your request and provide RPQ S06709720.
Workaround:
Recover the VM to a local VMware datastore. Once the VM restore has completed successfully, vMotion the recovered VM from the local VMware datastore to the VSAN ESA datastore.