

Veritas recommends that you always have enough free space available to be able to restore the largest VM completely. Provide additional free space to the restore destination, so that there is enough space available to store the complete VM server the restore is for. You will need to have at least 2Tb of free space available on the Destination.

In this scenario, the restore will fail, even though there is enough space to store the single 500Gb disk. The Destination you are restoring to only has 1.5Tb space available You select to restore a single 500Gb VMDK disk from a VM guest server that has a total size of 2Tb (multiple disks). The calculation used is based on the size of the complete VM server, not just the partial data that has been selected for restore. The beremote_AlwaysOnLog.log at the Media Server will record - VM_VCBPROXY_FS::CreateVirtualMachine: vmcCreateVirtualMachineEx reported: Insufficient disk space on datastore 'VMW_VOL_04'., CauseĪs part of the Restore job, a check is made on the amount of free space available in the target location, to confirm whether the restore data will fit.

The Restore job will fail with Error 0xe00095a4 - Operation failed because the vCenter or ESX server reported a problem creating or accessing one or more necessary files A Partial Restore (of one or more VMDK disks) of a VMware Guest, will fail if the target destination does not have enough free space available to store a copy of the complete VM server.
