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  Here a quick and easy alert configuration in Aria Operations for Logs helpful to know when, how much and who increase a datastore size. In query section insert the two text conditions that contain the key words "user:" and "increased in capacity". Don't forget to put "any" to ensure to match both conditions. Lastly put your email address in "Trigger condition" to notify yourself. Thanks for reading!

In this post I want analyze a curious behavior of NetWorker SQL backup in vSphere enviroment: Symptoms An examination of the MSVMAppAgent logs on the SQL server show the following errors: C:\Program Files\DPSAPPS\MSVMAPPAGENT\logs\msvmcatsnap.log 171634:msvmagentcatsnap: ===Command Line Arguments===:  C:\Program Files\DPSAPPS\MSVMAPPAGENT\bin\msvmagentcatsnap.exe -i -Extracted VSS metadata file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\EMC\vProxy FLR Agent\tmp\695ccb0f-b0f3-43a5-942f-e0c83fcafe26\vm-180966-vssManifest.zip' to directory 'C:\Program Files\DPSAPPS\MSVMAPPAGENT\tmp\VSSMetadata.2021-07-30_09-08-58'168886: msvmagentcatsnap: Unable to find VSS metadata files in directory C:\Program Files\DPSAPPS\MSVMAPPAGENT\tmp\VSSMetadata.2021-07-30_09-08-58.102333:msvmagentcatsnap:  Exiting with failure. Cause When VMware takes a snapshot of a Windows VM with the Quiesce option enabled it uses the installed VMware tools to query theMicrosoft Volume Shadow Copy service. Then creates a file ca...