VMware Backup – File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore

Date July 8, 2012 Author By kadmin Category VMware

Scenario: Backing up VMware ESXi virtual machines.  In this case, using Acronis VMprotect 7.  This issue is also seen with other backup software. Problem: Backup job fails with this error message: Message: Awaiting task ‘CreateSnapshot’ has failed. Reason: File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore ‘. ——————–‘. Full error Log: Task ‘fileserver […]