We have a similar persistent VDI golden image machine in VMware. The difference is that ours is for our Citrix XenApp environment, as opposed to VMware Horizon. We need to retain multiple manual snapshots of that machine (up to 5) for both golden image updating and potential rollback purposes. But with Veeam inherently not liking the presence of manually created snapshots, I found either in the version 12 vSphere user's guide or some Veeam KB article somewhere (sorry, I can't find the exact reference right now) one key recommendation on how to configure the backup job of the golden image machine.
We disabled changed block tracking (CBT) completely under the Storage > Advanced.. > vSphere tab. That should also disable the sub-options for Enable CBT for all protected VMs automatically and Reset CBT on each Active Full backup automatically. Veeam does not complain about the manual snapshots, and it doesn't delete or attempt consolidation of them either.
We disabled changed block tracking (CBT) completely under the Storage > Advanced.. > vSphere tab. That should also disable the sub-options for Enable CBT for all protected VMs automatically and Reset CBT on each Active Full backup automatically. Veeam does not complain about the manual snapshots, and it doesn't delete or attempt consolidation of them either.
Statistics: Posted by poolshark1 — Oct 25, 2024 1:11 pm