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  • 1.  unable to create a snapshot

    Posted Jul 19, 2018 07:41 PM

    Anyone know what might be causing this?

    An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See the virtual machine's event log for details



  • 2.  RE: unable to create a snapshot

    Posted Jul 19, 2018 07:46 PM

    It usually means VMware tools failed when communicating with VSS because you had the "quiesce" checkbox checked. Logs inside the guest would tell why. Many different causes for this.



  • 3.  RE: unable to create a snapshot

    Posted Jul 19, 2018 07:50 PM

    I do not know where that check box is located



  • 4.  RE: unable to create a snapshot

    Posted Jul 19, 2018 07:53 PM



  • 5.  RE: unable to create a snapshot

    Posted Jul 21, 2018 04:06 PM

    If you were able to create snapshots in the past using the same settings that fail now - then I recommend to check the VSS-config inside the guestOS
    See VMware Knowledge Base



  • 6.  RE: unable to create a snapshot

    Posted Aug 07, 2018 06:28 PM

    Does that kb article apply to vCenter 6.5 too I saw a 6.0x but not sure that applies to 6.5. The quiescing error does not occur all the time and I know it will be a better backup if we can turn that feature on. So does anyone have any other suggestions?



  • 7.  RE: unable to create a snapshot

    Posted Aug 07, 2018 07:24 PM

    Hi

    I have come across this issue and below where few of the suituation :

    --> when the of  respective virtual machine is high and the quiescing operation is unable to push all the data to disk, while further I/O is created.

    -->If you try to create a quiesced snapshot on a virtual machine that does not have free space. That is, if the free space on the virtual machine is Zero or Nill .

    Try to check if reboot does change anything for you .

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    regards

    Gaytahri