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Failed to quiesce snapshot of the Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine

Date January 21, 2019 Author By Category Uncategorized

Details Unable to create a quiesced snapshot of the Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine. Cloning a Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine fails.  Note: For additional symptoms and log entries, see the Additional Information section.  SolutionThis issue occurs due to VSS application snapshots that are created without using the VMware software. This is a known issue […]

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How to Tag Disk as SSD in VMware ESXi 5.5 and 6.0

Date November 9, 2015 Author By Category VMware

Problem: You installed an SSD drive in your ESXi host and it shows up as Non-SSD in the configuration pane. Solution: Enable SSH Use SSH to tag the disk as SSD run this command to get your disk ID esxcli storage nmp device list then use your disk ID in the following 2 commands esxcli […]

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VMware Backup – File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore

Date July 8, 2012 Author By Category VMware

Scenario: Backing up VMware ESXi virtual machines.  In this case, using Acronis VMprotect 7.  This issue is also seen with other backup software. Problem: Backup job fails with this error message: Message: Awaiting task ‘CreateSnapshot’ has failed. Reason: File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore ‘. ——————–‘. Full error Log: Task ‘fileserver […]

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How To Speed up VMware Converter

Date May 21, 2012 Author By Category VMware

Original Post is here.  Re-posted here for my own convenience. Turning off SSL inscreased my transfer speed from 4Mbps to 22 Mbps. ——————————————————————————————– If you haven’t checked out VMware Converter 5 yet, you should. There are a lot of really nice enhancements, the two big ones being vSphere 5 support and automatic partition alignment (which […]

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