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gdistatte
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FortiMail and Veeam Backup & Replication

Hello everyone,

 

I have a problem with the backup of the fortimail with veeam 9.5 u3. 

"VMDK disk is not properly aligned. Disk size is not a multiple of 1KB."

No vmware tools installed in the vm of course.

Application aware backup and vmware tools quiescence are disabled.

Is it possible to resize the main disk ?

 

Thanks in advance for all the answers.

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oschwieger
New Contributor

I ran into the very same problem. Would like to get a solution as i can't change the disksize using vCenter...

 

Carl_Windsor_FTNT

There is NFR #0262308 raised to enable VMTools on the VM, please express your support via your Fortinet Account Team.  I am not sure if this is the only thing required to support Veeam however so this may need further investigation.

Dr. Carl Windsor Field Chief Technology Officer Fortinet

gdistatte

Thank you for the information.

KPS
New Contributor III

Hi!

 

I just ran into the same issue - FortiMail VM on VMWare ESXi. VMWare-Tools are not available and Veeam B&R is not able to start a backup because "VMDK disk is not properly aligned. Disk size is not a multiple of 1KB."

 

Have you been able to solve this?

 

Thank you for your help!

KPS
New Contributor III

Hi!

 

VMWare Tools are still not available, but resizing the boot-disk with PowerCLI did it:

 

 

Get-HardDisk -vm fortimail-vm-64bit-250gb-hw7-vmxnet3 | where {$_.name -eq "Hard disk 1"} |Set-HardDisk -capacityGB 0.6

 

Backup was possible, now.

 

KPS

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