We use PowerCLI 5.1 to automate routine cloning of some VMs. Since upgrading VMTools to 5.1, some VMs cronically fail to clone with this error when attempting to create a snapshot:
The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error message was: 'VssSyncStart' operation failed: IDispatch error #8460 (0x8004230c)
To date, we've only had success recovering from this issue by restarting the VM, which is not ideal. From researching, we could opt for a crash-consistent clone by avoiding the quiescing of the file system. I did manually try taking a snapshot of the VM with quiescing enabled, and got the same error above. When I do not quiesc, the snapshot is successful.
Is it possible to configure a VirtualMachineCloneSpec to avoid quiescing the file system (i.e. create a crash-consistent clone?) Been searching around in the API and have not come across anything so far that leads me to believe it's possible.