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FrankPicken
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Backup fails by taking a snapshot

Every time i Try to take a snapshot the operation fails.
Server is ESXI 6 U03
Vmware tools are 10.0.7

Has anyone a solution for this problem

Warnmeldung von localhost.xy.z Das

Gastbetriebssystem hat während der Stilllegung

einen Fehler gemeldet. Der Fehlercode lautet: 5

Die Fehlermeldung lautet: 'VssSyncStart'

operation failed: IDispatch error #8449

(0x80042301)

Warnung

23.10.2017 10:28:59

DC01

root

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cyberpaul
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Hi Frank,

I've seen this with VMs under heavy IO load. Sometimes it was possible to reduce IO by adding more RAM to the VM. Other times the only workaround was to disable quiescing when taking a snapshot.

I dunno what other people's experience with quiescing is, but I have reached a point when I always do some testing before enabling it for a production VM 🙂

Cheers, Pavel

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