topic Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed in ESXi Discussions

VssSyncStart' operation failed

sunleung — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 04:13:39 GMT

Hi,

I just face a event log as below:

Warning message from localhost.localdomain:

The guest OS has reported an error during

quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error

message was: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed:

IDispatch error #8449 (0x80042301)

warning

it caused the Acronis Backup software fail to backup

In Communities information, it seem relate to disk space and i/o speed.

For disk space, we should have enough disk space for OS.

Also i trust it is not heavy duty when backup, i/o should be enough

In knowledge base 1018194, resolution is reboot the virtual machine.

is it reboot the acronis appliance or our production os?

Any method to prevent the same?

Existing our version is EXSi 5.1 built 799733.

Thank you

Rgds,

Sun

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

spravtek — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 07:08:44 GMT

Hi,

What OS/Application is the VM running?

Maybe you could check the VSS of the VM, if VSS is used of course, check: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1031298

Test if the backup works without quiescing... The KB mentions the disabling of the feature.

If the machine is producing too much IO during the backup, the quiescing can fail.

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

SBMtmiller — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:24:33 GMT

Have you figured out this issue? I am having the exact same error w/ Symantec Netbackup.

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

SBMtmiller — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:27:27 GMT

"If the machine is producing too much IO during the backup, the quiescing can fail."

What does this really mean? How much is too much and how would I know?

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

Udaayan — Fri, 30 May 2014 20:58:09 GMT

I am having the exact issue with our Exchange 2010 server VM with Acronis as backup tool. It also leaves the VM locked and powered off after the backup fails.

OS: Windows Server 2008 x64

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

tkolbe — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:25:50 GMT

Anyone figure this out yet?

Same issue here using Commvault Simpana 10 to back up various Windows 2008 R2 hosted on FC 8Gbps datastores on an EMC VNX5700. We don't generally have guest IO issues during backups, but I am seeing this occur more frequently on vSphere 5.5 than I did in 5.0.

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

AuComNZ — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:37:08 GMT

I had the same issue. Fixed it by running the VMWare installer and disabling "Volume Shadow Copy Service"

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

Sanktuary — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 07:51:47 GMT

Any News here?

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

jonbuddy — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:58:26 GMT

After much searching on this issue, AuComNZ's suggestion worked for me.

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

melbatista — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:40:39 GMT

reinstall vm tools > custom > uncheck Volume Shadow Copy Services Support!

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

Sudarshan_Bhart — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:12:25 GMT

Ensure that there is no snapshot appearing in Snapshot Manager.

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

keith2399 — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:06:35 GMT

AuComNZ suggestion worked for me, thanks!

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

bansne — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:23:27 GMT

AuComNZ suggestion worked, i was facing this issue in Netbackup and backup was getting partially successful.

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

Kisan_VMware — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 19:33:24 GMT

Hi,

This is could issue due VSS writers failing, check all VSS writers showing now error ran following command from cmd to see vss writer status if any error showing fix this first. Normally backup fail due to VSS issues.

vssadmin list writers

follow the following KB for more info.

VMware KB: Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off …

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

lsaluze — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:37:42 GMT

Thank you, it helped me a lot.

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

wanttoknow — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:10:28 GMT

Re-install VMware Tools on your VM.

Re: VssSyncStart' operation failed

---__--- — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:06:48 GMT

Reinstall / Configure Vmware tools and remove the VSS feature. You don't even have to perform a reboot and you will be able to take a snapshots again.

Per: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1018194

"If you are using a third-party backup product that does not allow you to configure for non-quiescent snapshots, remove the VSS component from the Windows guest operating system, provided as part of VMware Tools. This results in VMware Tools attempting to use an older sync driver. When you request a quiescent snapshot, VMware Tools does not find and utilize the VSS driver and then attempts to quiesce using the sync driver. "