Unable to create snapshot with application quiescing enabled

[aaroncatt9]

Hi all,

We are having some issues when trying to create snapshots with application quiescing enabled. We get the following error from vmware.log in the datastore:

The error message was: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed: IDispatch error #8454 (0x80042306)

I have installed the latest version of VM Tools (10.1) on the VM, and even copied to another separate host - still doesn't work :smileysad:

I have also disabled application quescing, as mentioned in this article Disabling VSS quiesced application based snapshots in virtual machine (2146204) | VMware KB. Although this does help with the snapshot completing, we don't get application consistency.

The VM is hosted on vSphere 6.0 U2 (with all most-recent critical patches installed), and the guest OS is Win Server 2012 (also has SQL Server 2012 installed).

Has anyone come across this before?

Much appreciated,

Aaron

[timalexanderINV]

Did you ever manage to resolve this?  We are having the same issue but with a later version of tools and ESXi 6.5u2