Error Message

Final error: 0xe000959a - An attempt to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it was unable to quiesce an application.

This issue occurs because the I/O in the virtual machine is high and the quiescing operation is unable to flush all the data to disk, while further I/O is created.

This issue may also occur if you try creating a quiesced snapshot on a virtual machine which does not have free space (0 bytes).

• Run Non-GRT backup of Virtual Machine to deduplication device.
• Collect the vmware.log for the corresponding virtual machine from the VMWare ESX server using VI client. 
• Check the errors recorded in "vmware.log" and follow the steps provided in VMWare KB article:

Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen virtual machine (1018194)

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