Export Failing

COMPONENT: CORE VERSION: 6.2.1.100 on a windows box, Win2012 R2 We use agents.
We are trying to perform a onetime export. I am exporting to a virtual machine vCenter/ESXi. I go through the entire wizard and the job starts. After it start, it errors out. I tried the first export from an incremental. That failed. Then I took a base of the machine and tried again. Still it failed. All that was a linux machine. I then tried a windows box. That failed too. Error below.

Exception chain:

  • VDDK Handle is invalid. This can be due to VDDK API proxy restart.
  • Operation 'Open' with connection = '306938672816' path = '[PS01A-9001-none-0000-vol] P011DC01-FBAT03test/disk0.vmdk' openFlags = 'VIXDISKLIBFLAG_NONE' failed with VddkApiException: VDDK Handle is invalid. This can be due to VDDK API proxy restart.
  • Writing volume custom metadata operation has been failed.
  • Cannot execute an export task
  • One or more errors occurred.

Server side:

Replay.Core.Contracts.Export.ExportException: Cannot execute an export task ---> System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.TimeoutException: Writing volume custom metadata operation has been failed. ---> Replay.Common.VddkApi.Contracts.Exceptions.VddkApiOpenFailedException: Operation 'Open' with connection = '306938672816' path = '[PS01A-9001-none-0000-vol] P011DC01-FBAT03test/disk0.vmdk' openFlags = 'VIXDISKLIBFLAG_NONE' failed with VddkApiException: VDDK Handle is invalid. This can be due to VDDK API proxy restart. ---> Replay.Common.VddkApi.Contracts.Exceptions.VddkApiException: VDDK Handle is invalid. This can be due to VDDK API proxy restart. at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.VddkApi.VddkApiService.ValidateHandle(String handle, Boolean shouldThrow, Boolean shouldPing) at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.VddkApi.VddkApiService.Open(OpenDiskParameters diskParameters)

--- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.VddkApi.VddkApiProxy.Query[T](Func1 query, Boolean shouldRetry) at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.VddkApi.VddkApiProxy.Open(IVddkConnection connection, String path, OpenFlags openFlags) at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.Vmdk.VmdkVirtualDisk.OpenDisk(String path) at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.Vmdk.VmdkVirtualDisk.MountBase() at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.Vmdk.VmdkVirtualDisk.BeginBatch(VirtualDiskTarget target) at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.VirtualMachineBuilderBase.WriteVolumeCustomMetadata(IVolumeMetadata volumeMetadata, String customMetadata) at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.VirtualMachineBuilderBase.<>c__DisplayClass35_0.<SetVolumeCustomMetadata>b__1() at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.Resilience.VddkApiDisconnectHandler.ExecuteWithRetryInternal(Action action, String actionName, Action1 virtualDisksReplacedCallback)

--- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Replay.Common.Implementation.Virtualization.Resilience.VddkApiDisconnectHandler.ExecuteWithRetryInternal(Action action, String actionName, Action1 virtualDisksReplacedCallback) at Replay.Common.Implementation.VolumesAndDisksWorker.VolumesAndDisksWorker2.ForEachSourceVolume(Action`1 action, Boolean includeAll, Boolean throwIfException) at Replay.Core.Implementation.Export.VirtualMachineExporterBase.RunWorker() at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()

--- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions) at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Replay.Core.Implementation.Export.ExportJob.ExportTask()

--- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Replay.Core.Implementation.Export.ExportJob.ExportTask() at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()