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More Veeam woes...

Happy New Year! For some reason our replication - using Veeam V7 stopped working. The error in the job log was: Exception from server: Failed to open VDDK disk [[DISK_ID] SERVERNAME_replica_1/DISKNAME-000002.vmdk] ( is read-only mode - [false] ) Failed to open VMDK. Logon attempt with parameters [VC/ESX: [VEEAMSERVERNAME];Port: 443;Login: [****];VMX Spec: [moref=vm-40323];Snapshot mor: [snapshot-40842];Transports: [hotadd:nbd];Read Only: [false]] failed because of the following errors: Failed to process [srcReplicateVddkDiskContent] command. So looking around on Google didn't yield much apart from a lot of dead ends, finally one page had the answer! http://www.blackforce.co.uk/2013/12/05/veeam-7-error-failed-to-open-vddk-disk Which simply says check the proxies for any attached disks and remove them.  These disks should be removed after the job completes but for some reason they did not. I just went into the Edit Properties (on vSphere) for each proxy server and c