Any kind of VMware Job, regardless of the VM or Target, would fail with "Process 'VMware Plugin' (PID 'xxxx') has crashed!" or just "Backup Failed". If it's the latter, a "Process 'VMware Plugin' (PID 'xxxx') has crashed!" may appear in the general logs around the same time the "Backup Failed".
Gathering a VDDK Log contains the following entries before a "Panic: Win32 invalid_parameter error":
[Originator@#### sub=cleanup] HotAddMgr::ProcessItems: Hot-removing disk [<datastore>] <vmname>/<name>.vmdk at SCSI #:#
If an SSH session is made to any of the hosts and a cat/less/cp or any command is issued to the *.vmx, *.log or any file for the VM on the error above. There would be an error saying the file is in use. Doing the same for another VM would work.
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