Alec, I'm experiencing the same issue but mine is slightly different in a way that I can take a snapshot of the VM with “Snapshot the virtual machine’s memory” unticked and “Quiesce guest...
Thanks.problem resolved
If anyone knows the reason I would like to know - worked fine for me on windows sbs 2011
Alec, did you get any news from VMware on this? Are you too using esxi 6.0? (we have build 3825889) Thanks
We use Veritas NetBackup, upto and including version 7.7.3 and we too were having this issue. Removing the VSS component in VMware tools allowed the snapshot to be taken & the backup to complete ...
We also need the answer for Ross's question above. Will there be any knocks?
By removing the VSS component what are we actually doing in essence? Will it cause any knock on effects later on?
Thank you . Work for me
so good now the problem resolved
Great! Fixed the issue. Thanks!