Replication Manager proxy & NFS errors "exceeded the time limit"

Here's a solution to the issue “Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen VM” when trying to snap a datastore on NFS with RM.

Sent: Thu Mar 11 05:46:47 2010
Subject: RE: RM proxy & NFS errors "exceeded the time limit"

Hi,

I just checked the installation. VMWare Tools where installed, including the VSS Provider. VSS itself was in a corrupted state. Uninstall VMWare tools, cleaning up VSS as per http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940184 and reinstalling VMWare Tools did fix the issue.

Sent: Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 11:36
Subject: RE: RM proxy & NFS errors "exceeded the time limit"

Check the VMware tools installation inside the virtual machine and make sure the VMware tools is running inside the VM

Thanks

Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:58 AM
Subject: RE: RM proxy & NFS errors "exceeded the time limit"

Do you know if vmtools are installed on the VM ?

Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:55 PM
Subject: RM proxy & NFS errors "exceeded the time limit"
Importance: High

Hi,

I’m using RM 5.2.3 proxy to vSphere  on a Celerra NFS share with a running VM (vm-nas-rmdemo) , and I do get the following error:

“Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen VM”

Any adivse how to fix that? Any ESX parameters that must be set to exceed the frozen IO time window?