Creating a quiesced snapshot of a Windows virtual machine records events in the windows event log

Summary

If VMware Tools is set up, the following might be recorded in the Windows event log during a hot backup.

– Event ID: 50 NTFS Warning
{delayed write failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.

– Event ID: 57 NTFS Warning
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.

– Event ID: 137 NTFS Error
The default transaction resource manager on volume ?Volume{806289e8-6088-11e0-a168-005056ae003d} encountered a non-
retryable error and could not start. The data contains the error code.

– Event ID: 140 NTFS Warning
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur in VolumeId:<> DeviceName:
DeviceHarddiskVolume<>.(A device which does not exist was specified.).

– Event ID: 12289 VSS Error
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error DeviceIoControl(?fdc#generic_floppy_drive#6&2bc13940&0&0#{53f5630d-
b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} – 00000000000004A0,0x00560000,0000000000000000,0,0000000000353B50,4096,[0]). hr =
0x80070001, Incorrect function.

Reference

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2006849