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Taking More Than One Snapshot of a Suspended Virtual Machine Produces an Error (1424776)

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Why do I get an error message when I take a snapshot of a suspended virtual machine?

Solution

If you suspend a virtual machine and then take two successive snapshots, the second snapshot operation fails with the error Failure due to a malformed request to the server.

This error is expected and does not indicate a problem. Because suspended virtual machines do not change, the second snapshot would overwrite the existing snapshot with identical data.

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