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VCB error on Windows 2008 server, unable to create quiesced snapshot

1. The Status from the VSphere is: "Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the create snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen virtual machine
2. The VCB is working all along. No changes is being done on the server prior to the VCB failure

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We've tried the suggested solution and there's no problem doing a manual snapshot.

Creating snapshot from the VSphere is fine.
The problem is encountered during the VCB using the command below:  

C:\Program Files\tivoli\TSM\baclient>dsmc backup vm -vmlist=servername -vmbackuptype=FULLVM

This is the error:

[2011-09-22 10:25:11.421 'vcbMounter' 4012 error] Error: Other error encountered
: Snapshot creation failed: Could not quiesce file system.
[2011-09-22 10:25:11.421 'vcbMounter' 4012 error] An error occurred, cleaning up
...
Deleted directory e:\VCBfull\fullvm\rhtss12p\BACKUP_CURRENT
Finished command.  Return code is: 1

Mount command failed. Retry #1...
Retry mount command using Network Base Disk Access.
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Found that to disable the volume shadow copy services support for vmware device drivers in the vmware tools.