There are a few reasons why a VM might be placed in a saved state, but the most common is that it needs to be backed up. Here's how to fix this. One of the things that I have occasionally been asked ...

You may have encountered an error when opening a VMware virtual machine that says failed to connect pipe to the virtual machine. There are various instances of this ...

If you see the message An error occurred while attempting to checkpoint the selected virtual machines, with Event ID 3280, this post will help you resolve the issue ...