Just wanted to throw this out to the community to see if others are seeing the same issue. Our current environment consists of vCenter 4.1 and esxi 4.1 and 4.0. We use Arcserve 15 SP1 and VDDK 1.2.1 in order to do san based backups of our VMs. We have been testing our restore process on a new ESXi 5 cluster managed by vCenter 5, (on VMFS3 volumes...see my next post). What we have found is that in order to restore a VM back to its original location...or just to any server in an esxi 5 farm, we have to remove the esxi server from the farm, disassociate it from vCenter, and then the restore goes just fine. If the esxi 5 host is managed by vcenter, the restore fails. This is restoring VMs from esxi 4.1 and 5.
Just wondering if it is our environment/Arcserve or if this is a esxi 5 wide issue. Before we started testing I vaguely recall the CA support guys saying there was a problem restoring to esxi farms and it was a vmware issue.