Symptoms:
- A virtual machine with OS type “Windows Server 2016” is created using a Host Client.
- You cannot find the “disk.EnableUUID = “TRUE”” parameter in the vmx file by default.
- Additionally we may also see that the Quiesce snapshots will also fail with the below messages
[msg.snapshot.quiesce.startfail] Failed to start quiescing operation in the virtual >machine.
The error message was: Error initializing quiesce operation.
ToolsBackup: changing quiesce state: IDLE -> DONE
SnapshotVMXTakeSnapshotComplete: Done with snapshot 'ShadowCopyEnabled': 0
SnapshotVMXTakeSnapshotComplete: Snapshot 0 failed: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine >(29).