Ohhh sick burn.

Thanks everyone for your input.

I'll grab the the appliance and have a good look at it.
Now I can get on to planning the upgrade 🙂

@NetworkNerd said:

For those that do blog, how much time would you say you spend on it per week, per month, etc.? I do not mean to hijack the thread but was genuinely curious. I've thought about starting a blog a couple of times, but it normally fizzles due to time constraints.

Quite a bit, maybe 30-60 minutes per day. I've been blogging constantly since 2000.

@alexntg

@alexntg said:

Which machine are you seeing this on?

The Mail server

What kind of storage/RAID type is that VMDK on?

Storage Blade

RAID 5
-- NOT FOR LONG!!! 😉

If you have a bad disk, one of the last things you ever want to do with it is defrag it. You risk causing further damage.
Righto 🙂

Not sure. "It depends." If you're keeping it on the same disk, you're repairing a database on a bad disk. If you drop the database, move it to a new disk, then try to bring it up, if you do need to repair it, you'd be repairing it on a new disk.

Righto, so, you suggest: dismount --> move to new disk --> Repairs? --> Mount

Can you set up a new disk with a new database and move the mailboxes over to it? That might be your safest bet, though it is possible the IS would crash when you hit the corrupted part of the disk.
Hmmmm, I'll have to think about this.

As a side note, check for any residual snapshots and that the Veeam proxy doesn't have any extra mounted disks. It shouldn't have anything to do with the issue, but it doesn't hurt to check.

I checked the Datastore and found many $-ctk.vmdk files. Research indicates that theses are for Change Block Tracking (from when I attempted to get Veeam to backup the server). Can I safely delete these? or is there something to turn off first? (veeam is not currently backing up this server.
Speaking of, ML 20140704 001.png
In the above image, the first virtual HDD isn't listing its provisioned size. Does that seem a little off to you?

Typically, we recommend grouping VMs with similar guest OS into the same job, as it guarantees better deduplication rates. Also, it's worth indeed deploying Veeam ONE, since it provides you with up-to-date information regarding your Virtual, as well as, Backup Infrastructure.

Thanks.

Thanks you all for your responses 🙂

I'll definitely be configuring the Configuration Backup as suggested.

@alexntg said:

I replied to your other post earlier this morning:
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/post/3353674

@alexntg I saw that. 🙂 Double thanks to you 😛 I posted in two places for a wider catchment of opinions... and I'm a bit impatient sometimes.

@Dashrender said:

What's the file location of wrapper.exe?

Wrapper.exe and java.exe have all spawned from the VMware directory

@alexntg said:

vCenter's a little RAM heavy. If I'm reading this right, you're using the same server for vCenter and Veeam. If that's the case, you'll want to give it extra RAM.

Yeah, that's just for evaluation purposes. I think I'll add more RAM regardless.

@scottalanmiller said:

You can tweak down the RAM usage if necessary. But I am not sure that I would recommend that.

Yeah, I'll pass on that. I was more concerned that it was broken and needed fixing but from the sounds of things, it isn't broken. So, no need to fix it then 🙂

Thanks lads 🙂