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An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine.

Troubleshooting


Problem

After upgrading VMware ESX to servers to V6.0 and upgrading Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments to V7.1.2, backups of several VMs fail to quiesce the virtual machines.

Symptom

The following messages are logged in the dsmerror.log file of the datamover :

ANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine 'vm-guest-name'.
TSM function name : visdkCreateVmSnapshotMoRef
TSM file : vmvisdk.cpp (5416)
API return code : 67
API error message : An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

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