Hello,
I received this error when trying to make a clone of one of our Windows 2008 R2 VM's. After the failure I rebooted the VM, it came up OK, but when you try to log on through the console or through a RDP session the server locks up hard. If I don't log in the server runs Ok. Has anybody seen this type of issue before?
Thanks,
Try to reset the VSS writer states like described in this technote:
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO54617
Andreas
Have a look @VMware KB: Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the snapshot operation exceeded the time limit ... and also the previous post VssSyncStart' operation failed
-SatyS