Installing the Volume Shadow Copy Service with VMware Tools
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VMware vSphere ESXi
Issue/Introduction
This article provides steps to install the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on a virtual machine on ESX 3.5 Update 2 or higher.
Resolution
ESX 3.5 Update 2 provides quiescing support using VSS. However, the VSS components are not installed when upgrading VMware Tools on a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine.
You can install VSS components manually by performing an interactive tools upgrade with VMware Infrastructure (VI) Client.
To manually install VSS:
In the VMware Tools installer, select Modify > Drivers > VSS.
Complete the installation process.
Restart the virtual machine to make sure VSS components are installed and running.