topic Re: Failed to Create vCenter Snapshot Associated With Volume Collection in Array Setup and Networking https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/failed-to-create-vcenter-snapshot-associated-with-volume/m-p/6982856#M578 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>what is difference between using vmware sychorization vs no synch?</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Apr 2015 21:50:22 GMT vmw9 2015-04-18T21:50:22Z Failed to Create vCenter Snapshot Associated With Volume Collection https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/failed-to-create-vcenter-snapshot-associated-with-volume/m-p/6982854#M576 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am getting this error in nimble:</P><P></P><P>Failed to create vCenter snapshot associated with volume collection xxxxx&nbsp; schedule DailyRetain15 for virtual machine vsm-n1kv-2 because virtual machine tools in the guest are not running.</P><P></P><P></P><P>I cannot install vmware tools on this vm since its a vendor proprietry appliance.</P><P></P><P>anyt idea what to do?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:00:38 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/failed-to-create-vcenter-snapshot-associated-with-volume/m-p/6982854#M576 vmw9 2014-11-18T19:00:38Z Re: Failed to create vCenter snapshot associated with volume collection https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/failed-to-create-vcenter-snapshot-associated-with-volume/m-p/6982855#M577 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can place it in it's own datastore and not use vmware synchronization when taking snaps.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:03:31 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/failed-to-create-vcenter-snapshot-associated-with-volume/m-p/6982855#M577 tmoore106 2014-11-18T20:03:31Z Re: Failed to Create vCenter Snapshot Associated With Volume Collection https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/failed-to-create-vcenter-snapshot-associated-with-volume/m-p/6982856#M578 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>what is difference between using vmware sychorization vs no synch?</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Apr 2015 21:50:22 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/failed-to-create-vcenter-snapshot-associated-with-volume/m-p/6982856#M578 vmw9 2015-04-18T21:50:22Z Re: Failed to Create vCenter Snapshot Associated With Volume Collection https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/failed-to-create-vcenter-snapshot-associated-with-volume/m-p/6982857#M579 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P class="">No synch does not call the VMTools agent to quiesce the filesystem and does not create a VMWare snapshot in order to get a application-consistent snapshot.</P><P class=""><BR /></P><P class="">If none is used then you will have a crash-consistent</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:48:17 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/array-setup-and-networking/failed-to-create-vcenter-snapshot-associated-with-volume/m-p/6982857#M579 rfenton4 2015-04-18T23:48:17Z