VMware errors quiescing guests running RHEL

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Issue

  • While tacking a snapshot of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest I get the error "An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See the virtual machine's event log for details" from VMware.

Environment

  • VMware ESXi 5.5U2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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