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vsssyncstart operation failed:idispatch error #8455

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I am trying to clone a 2008 R2 VM on ESX 5.1 and am getting the following error:

vsssyncstart operation failed:idispatch error #8455

I found one article online stating the cause is having Backup Exec installed on the server.  I can clone other servers that have BE on them with no problems.  The posts I'm seeing don't seem to have a direct fix.  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.

Tony
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How are you trying to Clone the virtual machine?

Is VMware Tools installed?
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Right click on the VM in Virtual Center and select clone.  VMware tools ver 9.0.10 is installed.
If you create (Take a snapshot) snapshot, with the Quicse option ticked, do you get the same issue?
I took a snapshot and Quiesce the guest file system checked and there was no problems.
I tried to clone a different VM server in the same Virtual Center data center with the same error message (diff host also).

I tried a third and that one worked fine.  Is there some global settings in a Virtual Center data center (cluster) or individual ESX host servers that could cause this?
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