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VCF VMSP backup history before and after: annotation 261,970 bytes with failed updates, then about 48 KB with updates succeeding

VCF Expert Nov 12, 2026

VCF 9.1 VMSP Backups Failing with “metadata.annotations: Too long” (Your Backups Are Probably Fine)

All of this was done in my home lab. Trimming the backup history ConfigMaps by hand is not a Broadcom-documented procedure. If you hit this in production, open…

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