Symptoms

On executing the powermig selectTarget command the command prompt does not return and shortly after the Windows host hangsEvents like the following found MSExchangeRepl Database redundancy health check passed. Database copy: xxxxx Redundancy count: 2 Errors: ================ Summary Status ================ Name Status RealCopyQueu InspectorQue ReplayQueue CIState e ue ---- ------ ------------ ------------ ----------- ------- xxxxx\xxxx-xx Healthy 0 0 1 Healthy 03 xxxxx\xxxx-xx Mounted 0 0 0 Healthy 04 =============== Full Status =============== Identity : xxxxx\xxxx-xxxxx Name : xxxxx\xxxx-xxxxx DatabaseName : xxxxx Status : Healthy MailboxServer : xxxx-xxxxx ActiveDatabaseCopy : xxxx-xx04 ActivationSuspended : False ActionInitiator : Administrator ErrorMessage : ErrorEventId : ExtendedErrorInfo : SuspendComment : SinglePageRestore : 0 ContentIndexState : Healthy ContentIndexErrorMessage : CopyQueueLength : 0 ReplayQueueLength : 1 LatestAvailableLogTime : 9/17/2019 7:11:14 PM LastCopyNotificationedLogTime : 9/17/2019 7:11:14 PM LastCopiedLogTime : 9/17/2019 7:11:14 PM LastInspectedLogTime : 9/17/2019 7:11:14 PM LastReplayedLogTime : 9/17/2019 7:11:11 PM LastLogGenerated : 42020057 LastLogCopyNotified : 42020057 LastLogCopied : 42020057 LastLogInspected : 42020057 LastLogReplayed : 42020056 LogsReplayedSinceInstanceStart : 35590 LogsCopiedSinceInstanceStart : 35578 LatestFullBackupTime : 9/13/2019 9:03:14 PM LatestIncrementalBackupTime : 9/16/2019 9:02:51 PM LatestDifferentialBackupTime : LatestCopyBackupTime : SnapshotBackup : True SnapshotLatestFullBackup : True SnapshotLatestIncrementalBackup : True SnapshotLatestDifferentialBackup : SnapshotLatestCopyBackup : LogReplayQueueIncreasing : False LogCopyQueueIncreasing : False OutstandingDumpsterRequests : {} OutgoingConnections : IncomingLogCopyingNetwork : SeedingNetwork : ActiveCopy : False Identity : xxxxx\xxxx-xx04 Name : xxxxx\xxxx-xx04 DatabaseName : xxxxx Status : Mounted MailboxServer : xxxx-xx04 ActiveDatabaseCopy : xxxx-xx04 ActivationSuspended : False ActionInitiator : Service ErrorMessage : ErrorEventId : ExtendedErrorInfo : SuspendComment : SinglePageRestore : 0 ContentIndexState : Healthy ContentIndexErrorMessage : CopyQueueLength : 0 ReplayQueueLength : 0 LatestAvailableLogTime : LastCopyNotificationedLogTime : LastCopiedLogTime : LastInspectedLogTime : LastReplayedLogTime : LastLogGenerated : 0 LastLogCopyNotified : 0 LastLogCopied : 0 LastLogInspected : 0 LastLogReplayed : 0 LogsReplayedSinceInstanceStart : 0 LogsCopiedSinceInstanceStart : 0 LatestFullBackupTime : 9/6/2019 9:03:08 PM LatestIncrementalBackupTime : 9/8/2019 9:01:41 PM LatestDifferentialBackupTime : LatestCopyBackupTime : SnapshotBackup : True SnapshotLatestFullBackup : True SnapshotLatestIncrementalBackup : True SnapshotLatestDifferentialBackup : SnapshotLatestCopyBackup : LogReplayQueueIncreasing : False LogCopyQueueIncreasing : False OutstandingDumpsterRequests : {} OutgoingConnections : IncomingLogCopyingNetwork : SeedingNetwork : ActiveCopy : True VSS ASR Warning: Failed to collect disk information for ASR Backup. Reason: Unable to obtain disk information for device 15 (Win32 error code 0x15).

Cause

PPME powermig source device found to contain VSS-snapshots of the C-drive.

Resolution

Manually remove the VSS snapshots and powermig targetSelect will be successful.

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