RHEL 7 hangs on VMware after taking a snapshot
Issue
- A Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 virtual machine hosted on VMware hypervisor begins to hang some time after a quiesing the filesystems during snapshot operations.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
open-vm-tools
is in use on the system instead of VMware'svmware-tools
- VMware's
vmsync
driver is used to help quiesce
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