VMware: "To Quiesce or not to Quiesce?" - Acronis
www.acronis.com › en-us › blogMar 23, 2017 · According to a VMware® Knowledge Base article, “Quiescing a file system is a process of bringing the on-disk data of a physical or virtual computer into a state suitable for backups. This process might include such operations as flushing dirty buffers from the operating system's in-memory cache to disk, or other higher-level, application-specific tasks.”