VSS snapshot restore is failing due to SCSI serial number mismatch


hi,

i have win2k12r2 vm single vdisk. triggered vss quiesce operation on vm , took snapshot of vdisk. cloned vm snapshotted vdisk , vm not booting. if don't quiesce vm using vss, repeat experiment, vm able boot. tedious debugging, found because of scsi serial number mismatch. looks vss marking scsi serial number in bcd. when vm restored vdisk, on boot, vm scsi enquiry disk serial number. if serial n umber doesn't match, vm not booting. in case, disk snapshotted, hypervisor returning different serial number.

the question is, vss store scsi serial number information ? there way avoid ? using hardware provider. need application consistent snapshots of vm. if able take application consistent snapshots , not able boot vm that, there no point of taking snapshots :). stuck here, suggestions how avoid ?



Windows Server  >  File Services and Storage



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