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Error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine

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Applies to

  • ONTAP Select
  • vCenter

Issue

When taking a VMWare based backup snapshot in vCenter, the following error is reported:

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

From vCenter, the OS was incorrectly reporting as FreeBSD instead of ONTAP 9.8 for each of the Select VMs:

Guest OS showing FreeBSD.png

 

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