VADP backup fails with “Identified an independent disk with label “Hard disk 1″ within the VM. This disk shall not be part of backup.” AND “Parser failed because of a non-NTFS volume inside the VM.”

Symptoms:

82788:nsrvadp_save: Identified an independent disk with label “Hard disk 1” within the VM. This disk shall not be part of backup.

There are no available virtual disks for backup.

80432:nsrvadp_save: Parser failed because of a non-NTFS volume inside the VM.

Backup of the non-NTFS volume Success.

Cause:

Independent persistent disks are not backed up:
VADP does not support the backup and recovery of independent persistent disks. If
such disks are detected during backup, they are skipped and a message is logged that
indicates the disks were skipped. However, during an image level recovery, the disk
is recovered without any data. If using independent persistent disks, you must use
the traditional NetWorker style backup for protecting the data on the independent
persistent disks via the backup client installed inside the VM.