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How to Resolve "Error Creating Snapshot" Error During ESX/ESXi Virtual Machine Backup

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This article refers to VMware with the VMware license which includes access to vSphere Data Recovery API.

This article describes how to resolve the error "Error creating snapshot" encountered while backing up an ESX/ESXi virtual machine (VM), as shown in the following image:

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The most common causes for this error are the size of the snapshot being created is larger than the available free space on the datastore, or a vss writer error.

For more information, refer to the following VMware knowledgebase articles: