Question : Symantec BackupExec 2010 VMware ESX 3.5 x64 guests fails with 'An attempt to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it was unable to quiesce an application'

We have VMware ESX 3.5 servers.
When we do a backup with BackupExec 2010 installed on a W2003 x32 machine with VMware agents this fails. x32 hosts can be backupd.

Backup job with Virtual Machines hosted on VMWare ESX 3.5 may fail with 'An attempt to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it was unable to quiesce an application' on Backup Exec 2010.

I openend a case at Symantec Entreprise support, but no results so far.

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/347992.htm
Backup job with Virtual Machines hosted on VMWare ESX 3.5 may fail with 'An attempt to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it was unable to quiesce an application' on Backup Exec 2010.

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/347992.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/347150.htm

I did live-update from within BackuExec 2010.

I still have to do a VMware ESX 3.5 upgrade from patch 3 to patch 5.

Removed VMware tools and installed with and without VSS.

Answer : Symantec BackupExec 2010 VMware ESX 3.5 x64 guests fails with 'An attempt to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it was unable to quiesce an application'

Not that I am aware of. I have never noticed any leaks on the projects it was used.
These projects were applications which ran fairly short, so memory leaks would go unnoticed most of the time.

Regards
Marco