Hello and thank you for the welcome.
I have attached the log file below...
I looked through it...perhaps I should have attempted to find this log earlier..I apologize for not doing that.
This jumps out at me, but I dont know exactly how to solve it...as I said, I am a novice in vmware. It seems like the problem could be a space issue? How do I increase the space on the storage disk?
Unitrends is our backup appliance.
Thank you!
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2015-10-21T06:59:02.956Z| vmx| I120: SnapshotVMX_TakeSnapshot start: 'Unitrends_backup', deviceState=0, lazy=0, logging=0, quiesced=1, forceNative=0, tryNative=0, sibling=0 saveAllocMaps=0 cb=28487540, cbData=323517D0
2015-10-21T06:59:04.412Z| vcpu-2| I120: ToolsBackup: changing quiesce state: IDLE -> STARTED
2015-10-21T06:59:14.581Z| vcpu-0| I120: ToolsBackup: changing quiesce state: STARTED -> COMMITTED
2015-10-21T06:59:14.581Z| vcpu-0| I120: Destroying virtual dev for scsi0:0 vscsi=9317
2015-10-21T06:59:14.581Z| vcpu-0| I120: VMMon_VSCSIStopVports: No such target on adapter
2015-10-21T06:59:14.629Z| vcpu-0| I120: Destroying virtual dev for scsi0:1 vscsi=9318
2015-10-21T06:59:14.629Z| vcpu-0| I120: VMMon_VSCSIStopVports: No such target on adapter
2015-10-21T06:59:14.630Z| vcpu-0| I120: Destroying virtual dev for scsi0:2 vscsi=9319
2015-10-21T06:59:14.630Z| vcpu-0| I120: VMMon_VSCSIStopVports: No such target on adapter
2015-10-21T06:59:14.683Z| vcpu-0| I120: SnapshotVMXTakeSnapshotWork: Transition to mode 0.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.683Z| vcpu-0| I120: Closing all the disks of the VM.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.683Z| vcpu-0| I120: Closing disk scsi0:2
2015-10-21T06:59:14.685Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Shutting down change tracking for untracked fid 151418447.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.685Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Successfully disconnected CBT node.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.731Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01_2-flat.vmdk" : closed.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.731Z| vcpu-0| I120: Closing disk scsi0:1
2015-10-21T06:59:14.734Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Shutting down change tracking for untracked fid 141784652.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.734Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Successfully disconnected CBT node.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.763Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01_1-flat.vmdk" : closed.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.763Z| vcpu-0| I120: Closing disk scsi0:0
2015-10-21T06:59:14.767Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Shutting down change tracking for untracked fid 138311241.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.767Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Successfully disconnected CBT node.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.954Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01-flat.vmdk" : closed.
2015-10-21T06:59:14.974Z| vcpu-0| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotConfigInfoReadEx: Creating new snapshot dictionary, '/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01.vmsd.usd'.
2015-10-21T06:59:15.049Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01-flat.vmdk" : open successful (65557) size = 85899345920, hd = 0. Type 3
2015-10-21T06:59:15.049Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01-flat.vmdk" : closed.
2015-10-21T06:59:15.050Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01_1-flat.vmdk" : open successful (65557) size = 536870912000, hd = 0. Type 3
2015-10-21T06:59:15.050Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01_1-flat.vmdk" : closed.
2015-10-21T06:59:15.058Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01_2-flat.vmdk" : open successful (65557) size = 217969590272, hd = 0. Type 3
2015-10-21T06:59:15.058Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01_2-flat.vmdk" : closed.
2015-10-21T06:59:19.857Z| vcpu-0| W110: File_GetFreeSpace: Couldn't statfs /vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01
2015-10-21T06:59:19.857Z| vcpu-0| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotCheckSpaceAndSnapshotNum: Error getting the free space on the storage disk
2015-10-21T06:59:19.857Z| vcpu-0| I120: Checkpoint_Unstun: vm stopped for 5276420 us
2015-10-21T06:59:19.858Z| vcpu-0| I120: SCSI: switching scsi0 to push completion mode
2015-10-21T06:59:19.862Z| vcpu-0| I120: DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/vmfs/volumes/5420ba57-19081720-69b0-001cc4485549/SV-AP-01/SV-AP-01.vmdk' pe
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