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Considerations for restore operations using data that was backed up with failed VMware consistency snapshots

Even if a VMware consistency snapshot for a virtual machine fails, the virtual machine is nevertheless backed up. You can view the backed up entities contained in the backup copy in the Restore wizard and use it for restore operations.

When creating a VMware snapshot, the virtual machine pauses all running processes on the guest operating system so that file system contents are in a known consistent state when the Data ONTAP Snapshot copy is taken. Despite the VMware snapshot failure, the virtual machine is still included in the Data ONTAP Snapshot copy.

The Quiesced column can display the following values: