Internal: "Internal Error" upon mounting a VM after upgrading 2.0xx (4046933)

Date: 1602/2011
NV Version: 8.5.x
OS Version: Windows
Application version: N/A
Plugin version: Vmware Plugin

Symptom:

When creating a vmware file level backup, a popup message "Internal error" is displayed upon mounting the VM.
In the vmware vmwxxx.log trace the following is shown:
1 VMWVIM :3116 198 0 165429 Attempting to remove VM snapshot
4 VMWVIM :3116 199 0 165429 Request to start task to remove VM snapshot successful
4 VMWVIM :3116 201 0 165432 Successfully removed snapshot with MORef 'snapshot-13233' for VM
3 PLGLIB :3116 380 0 165432 Send error reply: 'Internal error'
0 VMWBROWS:3116 90 0 165432 Failed mount: 'Internal error

In the the vmware vmwmountd-xxx.log trace we can see the following messages:
4 VDDK :4052 74 0 165429 VixMntapi_MountVolume
3 DYNLIB :4052 12 0 165415 018420B0 = GetDynamicLibFunctionAddress.
4 VDDK :4052 134 0 165429 VixMntapi_MountVolume: 24307
0 VDDK :4052 75 0 165429 Failed to mount volume
0 VDDK :4052 138 0 165429 VDDK error encountered: code 24307