{"id":3739,"date":"2018-11-07T05:26:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T05:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2018-11-07T05:26:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T05:26:14","slug":"cannot-stop-vpg-in-zerto-forcibly-delete-vpg-in-error-state-undo-log-isnt-empty-cant-start-new-transaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/cannot-stop-vpg-in-zerto-forcibly-delete-vpg-in-error-state-undo-log-isnt-empty-cant-start-new-transaction","title":{"rendered":"Cannot Stop VPG in Zerto &#8211; Forcibly delete VPG in Error State : Undo Log Isn&#8217;t Empty can&#8217;t start new transaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I tried to stop a VPG in Zerto after some DR testing, however, the Stop failed and the errors showing where :\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Forcibly delete VPG in Error <\/strong>State :<strong> Undo Log Isn&#8217;t Empty can&#8217;t start <\/strong>new<strong> transaction<\/strong><\/p><p>After lodging a call with Zerto Support, we had to forcibly remove the VPG Via Powershell and Re-Add it back<\/p><p><em>**Before you do this I recommend you log down all the VM&#8217;s in the VPG and the Temp Data Drives<\/em><\/p><p>You will need to download and install the Zerto Powershell Tools : Zerto.PS.Commands.Installer for your version<\/p><p>After this is run you need to Open the Zerto Powershell and run\u00a0<\/p><pre>ForceRemove-ProtectionGroup<\/pre><p>Enter the VPG Name without Quotes<\/p><p>Enter the IP of the Zerto Server and username and password ( admin \/ password )\u00a0<\/p><p>Once removed you can use the Zerto Virtual Replication Diagnostic Tool to import the VPG from the old setting file :<\/p><p id=\"hhPCzSU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"436\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3740  img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_5be276bd0dd55.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_5be276bd0dd55.png 436w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_5be276bd0dd55-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p><p>Then navigate to :\u00a0<\/p><p>C:\\Program Files\\Zerto\\Zerto Virtual Replication\\ExportedSettings<\/p><p>Find the latest backup and try and re-import the VPG<\/p><p>If this fails for whatever reason you will need to use the GUI at the customer side to recreate manually hence Note to backup VM names and Temp Data Drivers<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I tried to stop a VPG in Zerto after some DR testing, however, the Stop failed and the errors showing where :\u00a0Forcibly delete VPG in Error [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2717,1344,2714,2715,2716,2449],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-cannot-stop","tag-error","tag-forceremove-protectiongroup","tag-vpg","tag-wont-stop","tag-zerto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}