T19:27:17.417Z| vmx| I120: A timeout occurred while communicating with VMware Tools in the virtual machine. T19:27:17.417Z| vmx| I120: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out. T19:27:11.294Z| vmx| I120: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out. T19:26:56.292Z| vmx| I120: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out. T19:26:47.408Z| vmx| I120: SNAPSHOT: SnapshotPrepareTakeDoneCB: Prepare phase complete (The operation completed successfully). The failure message shown in the vSphere Web Client is “ Cannot quiesce this virtual machine because VMware Tools is not currently available.” The vmware.log file for the virtual machine also shows the following:
vmdks on a VMFS-5 datastore but I doubt the symptoms are limited only to that configuration. The virtual machine disk configuration is simply two. The issue is that creating a VMware virtual machine snapshot with VSS integration fails.
#Vmware 6.0 how to install vmware tools update
The problem began after installing VMware Tools version 10.0.0 build-3000743 (reported as version 10240 in the vSphere Web Client) which I believe is the version shipped in ESXI 6.0 Update 1b (reported as version 6.0.0, build 3380124 in the vSphere Web Client).
#Vmware 6.0 how to install vmware tools windows
Last week I was made aware of an issue a customer in the field was having with a data protection strategy using array-based snapshots which were in turn leveraging VMware vSphere snapshots with VSS quiesce of Windows VMs.