Taking snapshot of RHEL guest running on VMware vSphere fails to quiesce the guest filesystems

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Cannot snapshot or Backup VM after upgrading to open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.6

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
    • open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.6
  • VMware vSphere

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