Hi,
I have a potential problem with a VM that has 6 disks Disks 1 and 2 are shown as ''unsupported' under the vm settings (disks 2 - 6 are as usual with the correct vmdk files) When opening up the settings dialog for this machine, the following appears twice: "An unknown type of backing is found in the virtual machine: FileBackingInfo."
The vmx file for the machine shows all disks are present and working (as the machine itself works fine) The disks in questions are SCSI0:0 and 0:1. This is causing a problem because veeam does not appear to work with the 'unsupported disks' to the extent that even if a backup job consists of the supported disks it still fails looking for data from scsi 0:0
VMware ESXi is at 5.1.0-799733-standard the vm was originally built in 5.0. All the other vms on this host backup ok, but all of them have only one disk and none have the 'unsupported; status.
Is anyone able to point out what's going on here and how to change the status of scsi 0:0 and 0:1 to "supported"?
Many thanks in advance, Trevor.
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