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Unable to snapshot Request failed. (530)

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
java, python
Domain
backend, cloud

Research direction

The issue mentions a snapshot failure with error 530 and 'No strategy was able to handle requested snapshot'. Look at the VM snapshot creation logic, likely in the management server code. Search for 'Instance Snapshot' and error handling. Check the hypervisor-specific snapshot strategies (KVM, vSphere, XenServer) to understand why some VMs fail. Running tests for snapshot functionality may help reproduce the issue.

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Description

component:primary-storage type:bug

Issue:

trying to take a snapshot of VMs, some work, some do not. The ones that do not report

Request failed. (530)
"Failed to create Instance Snapshot: No strategy was able to handle requested snapshot for Instance {xxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx"

Triage:

i have gone though settings but everything looks as it should. There is no pattern i can see why some would work and the others not.

Workaround:

To get the job done we can take volume snapshots which work ok on all VMs.

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