Oracle VM: Cloning Fails with Error "snapshot with same name already exists in the project or snapshot name exceed the maximum length of 64 characters" (Doc ID 2955391.1)

Last updated on JUNE 20, 2023

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Symptoms

Cloning of a virtual machine fails with following errors. The storage is ZFSSA and connected through zfsaa storage plugin.

adminServer.log:

<span class="kmfixedwidthfont">&lt;com.oracle.ovm.mgr.event.ovs.Command&gt; &lt;mer-esrs-ovm01&gt; &lt;AdminServer&gt; &lt;EventProcessor-5&gt; &lt;&lt;anonymous&gt;&gt; &lt;&gt; &lt;a5a00cde-f65c-451a-8a4b-#########-#######&gt; &lt;1683842503917&gt; &lt;BEA-000000&gt; &lt;OVMEVT_00C014D_001 Async command failed on server: ovs-01. Object:prod-01-new (4), PID: 5666, Server error: 'clone: createSnap Call Failed: snapshot with same name already exists in the project or snapshot name exceed the maximum length of 64 characters.'&gt;</span>

/var/log/ovs-agent.log:

[2023-05-24 11:49:41 2677] DEBUG (S7kUtils:498) ENTER: _call_s7k_()
[2023-05-24 11:49:41 2677] DEBUG (S7kUtils:535) hostname: ##.##.##.##
[2023-05-24 11:49:42 2677] DEBUG (S7kUtils:512) EXIT : _call_s7k() - Success
[2023-05-24 11:49:42 2677] DEBUG (SCSIPlugin:1395) clone(): create temp snap
failed!
[2023-05-24 11:49:42 2677] INFO (storageplugin:125) Exception: 'clone:
createSnap Call Failed: snapshot with same name already exists in the project
or snapshot name exceed the maximum length of 64 characters.'
[2023-05-24 11:49:42 2677] ERROR (base:253) async call exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/agent/api/host/base.py", line 251,
in ovs_async_proc
output = function(*args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/agent/lib/service.py", line 110,
in wrapper
return func(*args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/agent/api/storageplugin.py", line
265, in storage_plugin_clone
return storage_plugin(impl_name, *params)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/agent/api/storageplugin.py", line
120, in storage_plugin
result = plugin_method(*params)
File "/opt/storage-connect/plugins/oracle/s7k/SCSIPlugin.py", line 1399, in
clone
raise CloneFailedEx(_(clonesnap_err_msg))
CloneFailedEx: 'clone: createSnap Call Failed: snapshot with same name
already exists in the project or snapshot name exceed the maximum length of
64 characters.'

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