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NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

VMware SCSI requirements for application quiesce on Windows

For a snapshot that quiesces an application on a Windows VM, VMware imposes the following disk requirements:

  • The VM's disks must be SCSI, not IDE.

  • The SCSI disks on the VM's SCSI controller must not occupy more than half of the total number of slots in the controller. Since the controller has a total of 15 slots, the number of disks in that controller must not exceed 7.

    If these conditions are not met and the NetBackup VMware policy enables the Virtual machine quiesce option, the backup may fail with status code 156.

    For more information on this VMware requirement, refer to the following article in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Documentation Center:

    Windows Backup Implementations

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