Re: An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine.

Hi Renwong,

Please check virtual machine usage , if it is generating high IO inside the OS

Please check the below link if it helps you,

VMware KB: Creating a quiesced snapshot in Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 fails with the error: Snapshot guest fai…

Just for the information, RHEL / any of the linux or Unix VM server does not support VMware tools quiescing.

Unix / Linux file system does not quiesce the machine in order to take the application consistent backup, it is only crash consistent copy of the OS.

Thanks and Regards,

Shrikant Gavhane.