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If a VMware VM has a GPT disk without an MSR partition, backups might complete with quiesce errors.
Backups for a VMware VM might complete with quiesce errors. On the vCenter, you see the following error: An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See the virtual machine's event log for details.
This issue can occur when a VMware VM has a GPT disk without an MSR partition. As a result, VMware cannot create a quieseced snapshot for the disk.
To resolve or work around this issue, see the VMware KB article Unable to take quiesced snapshot of Windows Server virtual machine with gpt disks without MSR partition (71130).