Monitoring VM Creation jobs
On Virtual Machine Conversion wizard execution, when you click Convert to Virtual Machine button, NetBackup creates a task for VM creation process. You can check the status, selected hypervisor environment details and VM conversion options under this task tab.
To monitor VM conversion tasks, perform the following tasks:
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, navigate to Bare Metal Restore Management > VM Conversion Tasks.
- Use the Refresh option to update the details pane with new information retrieved from the master server. Only the update item is highlighted.
Following screenshot shows a VM conversion task created upon execution of VM conversion wizard.
- To display details about a task, right-click a task in the Details pane and then select Properties.
Note:
You cannot cleanup or cancel submitted VM conversion task similar to BMR restore or discover tasks. You can see selected clients file system data recovery jobs under NetBackup Activity Monitor.
Following table shows different task status codes related to VM conversion, with description.
Status Code | Description |
|---|---|
0 | VM conversion task completed successfully. |
3 | Resource allocation failed. |
4 | Unsupported client configuration for VM creation. Some unidentified exception has been thrown during VM creation process execution. |
6 | Failure while loading client configuration. |
7 | Failure while creating VM node for the selected client configuration. |
8 | Failure while preparing for client physical machine object. |
9 | Failure while constructing VM conversion metadata. |
12 | Failure while mounting file systems on the created VM. |
13 | Failure while loading windows registry on the created VM. |
15 | Failure while configuring network settings. |
16 | Failure while auto-rebooting created VM. Sometimes if the hypervisor server is fully loaded then this task may fail. You can try booting VM manually in such case. |
17 | Failure while handling device driver configuration. |
18 | Failure while handling MSD device driver configuration. |
19 | An unidentified exception has been thrown during VM conversion process execution |