All of these steps should be followed on the vSphere Client: The following steps should be followed in order to reset CBT information on the Virtual Machine. If it is not hardware version 7 or higher, these steps will not work, Additional steps and alternate methods are presented in VMware KB 2139574 titled Resetting Changed Block Tracking for VMware vSphere virtual machines.īefore following these steps, confirm that the VM hardware is version 7 or higher. The following is a summary of information contained in VMWare's KB and will typically resolve most CBT issues. Determining if there are leftover delta files or snapshots that VMware vSphere or Infrastructure Client cannot detect (1005049).Consolidating snapshots in vSphere 5.x/6.0 (2003638).
Warning: Before applying this procedure, the VM must be free from snapshots. Due to this, the entire VMDK(s) will be backed up, resulting in larger Incremental/Differential Backup sizes. How to Reset Change Block Tracking (CBT) for VMware Backups ISSUEĭuring the Backup of a VMware Virtual Machine (VM), the VMware APIs may have problems getting Change Block Tracking (CBT) information.
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