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bn1234
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Vsphere Esxi 6.7 - Quiesce guest file system grayed out for all VMs

Recently migrated to new hosts running the latest version of Esxi 6.7 and vCenter Appliance. I noticed today that when taking snapshots the option to Quiesce guest file system grayed out for all VMs. I can't find a single VM that doesn't have this option grayed out. These VMs have VMware tools installed and running. I tried rebooting a couple of the VMs to see if that made a difference and it does not.

I've tried it on the host management UI and vCenter, both Flash and HTML5.

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SRehan
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Hi,

Good Day..

We need to upgrade VMware Tools version to latest one (VMware Tool 11), may be after that option will available.

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bn1234
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I upgraded one VM to VMware Tools 11 and it did not change the option to not be grayed out:

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bn1234
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I just noticed that if I uncheck the box to Snapshot the VMs memory, the option to quiesce the file system is now available. Is this new behavior or am just mistaken?

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Rubeck
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Short- version:

If you quiesce there's no need to snapshot memory as in- memory cache etc are flushed to disk...

/Rubeck

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bn1234
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Well I wasn't crazy. I went back and looked at a 6.0 host and you did have the option for both. So I guess this is a 6.7 thing now.

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