The following error may occur during a VMware backup plan execution. Error Message: Backing up virtual machine {Name of the Machine (VirtualMachine)} failed.
05.04.2021 · Creating a quiesced snapshot fails. While taking a snapshot, you see the error: Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen virtual machine You experience this issue when you are doing a hot clone of a virtual machine. You see the error:
20.02.2014 · I'm not sure how you took snapshot for the first machine which VM installed on first partition, since Linux OS doesn't support for Quiesce, since which require VSS to quiesce, so where ever we have VSS components, in those machines …
You can Also Gather the vmware.log for the affected virtual machine: Locating virtual machine log files on an ESXi/ESX host (1007805) These VMWare articles also may be helpful: Failed to quiesce snapshot of the Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine (1031298) Snapshot quiescing fails on Linux virtual machines (2116120) "msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCING ...
02.04.2020 · Unable to take quiesced snapshot of Windows Server virtual machine with gpt disks without MSR partition (71130) Symptoms Creating a quiesced snapshot (or running a backup job with quiescing) fails with the following errors on Server 2012/2016 VM's:
16.08.2019 · The snapshot failed since netbackup and if I take it directly on vcenter when I check the quiesced mode. - try the backup without vmtools (in others VM this works, how netbackup don't detect vmtools can do a normal snapshot.) - reinstall without VSS module. - the service " vmware service provide" is stopped.
28.08.2020 · The VMware Snapshot Provider service only runs on demand when the quiesce snapshot is requested from the backup application or the vSphere client. It will run temporarily and then will stop until the next backup run.