{"id":3204,"date":"2012-08-18T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiki.melberi.com\/uncategorized\/currently-connected-device-cd-dvd-drive-1-uses-backing-vmware-vmotion-migration-error"},"modified":"2017-10-24T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:01:38","slug":"vmotion-error-drive-uses-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/vmware\/vmotion-error-drive-uses-backing","title":{"rendered":"Currently connected device cd dvd drive 1 uses backing VMotion Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h2><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"><u><b>VMWare VMotion Migration Error<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">While performing VMotion migration, following error occurred.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><u><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Error:<\/span><\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Currently connected device &#8216;CD\/DCD drive 1&#8242; uses backing'[]\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/isoimages\/linux.iso&#8217;, which is not accessible.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-SHTk-fGkrP8\/T_PuGtlXO4I\/AAAAAAAAU2M\/alW-BKdczCY\/s1600\/currently+connected+device+cd+dvd+drive+1+uses+backing+.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"VMWare VMotion Migration Error\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-SHTk-fGkrP8\/T_PuGtlXO4I\/AAAAAAAAU2M\/alW-BKdczCY\/s640\/currently+connected+device+cd+dvd+drive+1+uses+backing+.jpg\" alt=\"VMWare VMotion Migration Error\" width=\"640\" height=\"58\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">or<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Unable to migrate from &lt;ESX srv 1&gt; to &lt;ESX srv2&gt;: Virtual machine is configured to use a device that prevents migration: Device \u2018CD\/DVD Drive 1\u2019 is a connected device with a remote backing.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b><u><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Solution: <\/span><\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Edit the Virtual machine and reconfigure the CD or FDD as shown below.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eByct9cHJWY\/T_PwJqG3DKI\/AAAAAAAAU2U\/C-goa5atNr8\/s1600\/VMware+CD+Drive+reconfigure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eByct9cHJWY\/T_PwJqG3DKI\/AAAAAAAAU2U\/C-goa5atNr8\/s400\/VMware+CD+Drive+reconfigure.jpg\" alt=\"Currently connected device 'CD\/DCD drive 1' u\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-qC8XCOMvFAU\/T_PwSWo101I\/AAAAAAAAU2g\/JBe7yT7z9xM\/s1600\/Reconfig+VMWare+CD+Drive+2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-qC8XCOMvFAU\/T_PwSWo101I\/AAAAAAAAU2g\/JBe7yT7z9xM\/s400\/Reconfig+VMWare+CD+Drive+2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMWare VMotion Migration Error While performing VMotion migration, following error occurred. Error: Currently connected device &#8216;CD\/DCD drive 1&#8242; uses backing'[]\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/isoimages\/linux.iso&#8217;, which is not accessible. \u00a0 or Unable to migrate from&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/vmware\/vmotion-error-drive-uses-backing\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[1628],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melberi.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}