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Veeam Error: Cannot assign available PCI slot to ethernet5

2015-02-12 by Rasmus Haslund Leave a Comment

Some time ago I was on-site with a customer going through their Veeam Backup & Replication deployment.

One topic was to get the customer setup with SureBackup for automated recovery testing.

The Proxy Appliance deployed deployed by Veeam by default is Virtual Hardware Version 4 (so it could support older ESX/ESXi 3.X hosts).

That limits it to 4 virtual nics. We need one NIC to communicate with Veeam and one additional NIC per network for VMs. Since we needed more than 3 I had to do something.

Usually you can just deploy it with maximum 3 networks and then upgrade the HW version to 7 or better without any issues.

This time was different when I tried to power on the Proxy Appliance:

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Here is the log from the vSphere Client:

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After some research I found out you fix this by adding in these two advanced settings to the VM:

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Notice how the SlotNumber is lower than the ethernet0 slotnumber.

 

Please let me know in the comments if this helped you.

 

 

Filed Under: Veeam Tagged With: error.surebackup, Veeam

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