vRangerPro – Acquiring VM Lock. This may take many minutes!
November 10th, 2007 | 
Author: I recently installed the latest version of Vizioncore’s vRangerPro and ran into an issue where 2 of the VMs would not complete a backup. All of the other VMs would complete without issue. Both backup jobs would stall at the “Acquiring VM Lock. This may take many minutes!” message in the job console window. I had to manually cancel the first stalled job (using CTRL + C) before the second job would begin and eventually stall in the same spot.
I was using vRanger installed with VCB 1.0.3 on the same server. The backup was going to a local NTFS drive. The job was configured with VCB integration.
I was able to get the jobs to work by
- Canceling the stalled active backup job (Ctrl + C)
- Deleting the job’s leftover VM’s snapshot (and committing the changes). BE SURE TO DO THIS BEFORE CONTINUING!!!!
- removing the .vzmutex file from the VM’s volume folder. (using WinSCP)
- I also removed all of the .log files (except for the active one) and .vzsnp files as well. (This step was just folder cleanup and not necessary to get the jobs working)
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