ESXi - Snapshot feature greyed out?

[raeserfisk]

Hi!

I got a ESXi-server with a few VM's and im trying to back em up via a simple "snapshot, copy, repeat"-script. Everything is working perfectly until I try to snapshot the fileserver.

It seems, for some reason, that the fileserver cant be snapshotted in online-state (which is a requirement in this situation).

Anyone know why?

The only difference between this VM and the others is a m1015-card being passed through to it.

Would love a solution!

 

[_Gea]

You simply cannot snapshot a VM with pass-through devices in ESXi.
If your storage VM is a ZFS machine, you can use ZFS snaps.