Guest Quiescence

[bsoosay]

When backing up a VM, there is an option to either select or deselect Guest Quiescence - Enable VMware Tools Quiescence.

1. What are the implications if I deselect this option when backing up VM's?

2. Will backups be successful and will restores be successful as well?

3. Will I have issues with the restored VM if "Guest Quiescence - Enable VMware Tools Quiescence" has been deselected?

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Benjamin,

1. Please read through this F.A.Q. section for more info about Guest Quiescence options > Application-Aware Image Processing
2-3. Yes, but your backups will be crash-consistent. If you want to backup your applications inside the Guest OS in consistent state and, for example, truncate logs for SQL Server, then you need to use AAIP (application-aware image processing) for Windows VMs and VMware Tools Quiescence for Linux VMs.

Thanks!