What are the options for a VMware replication agent in case of a quiesce failure

Challenge

Failure to quiesce the system for a snapshot occurs during a VMware replication process.  

ESXi logs shows quiesce operation failure:

Solution

There are several replication strategies that you can follow when backing up a WMware machine and running into a failure to quiesce for the snapshot.

Although there is a default scenario, which stops the backup in case of an error, an alternative can be selected in advance by setting a corresponding value for the " quiesce_strategy" key in the hvragent configuration file. 

The config file can be found at: /run/config/hvragent.conf 

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" quiesce_strategy" can be assigned one of the following values:

1. "enforce" (default) - A quiesce attempt is made. In case of failure, backup is canceled.
   
2. "optional" - A quiesce attempt is made. In case of failure, a non-quiesced snapshot is created.
   
3. "disable" - Always create non-quiesced snapshots.
   

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