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We had a backup process that was cancelled (2x) and it left snapshots on our VMWare ESX 4.1 server on our database VM. We did not realize the snapshot ...

1. Connect to the ESX Host via SSH. · 2. Run this command “Service mgmt-vmware restart” to restart the service. · 3. If then the VM works, just ...

Unable to consolidate virtual machine snapshots due to file lock. ... see Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi hosts (10051).

26.04.2020 · Hi, We are using Veeam Backup & Replication version 10.0 for backup. VMware vCenter Appliance 6.7 u2 and tree ESXi hosts version 6.5.0. During backup last weekend, vCenter was unable to delete the snapshot after Veeam backup on one VM (Windows 2012 server). When i try to delete the SnapShots manual...

Presuming the VM in question is already shutdown when you try to delete the snapshot from snapshot manager. Go over and open up the VMX file ...

06.01.2012 · Unable to remove snapshots. We had a power outage over the New Year which corrupted one of my hosts, this host ran my 2 exchange 2010 mailbox servers so in an effort to get my users back into their emails I created 2 new VM's on the good host and pointed the VM's to the existing disks (on my shared storage) and successfully brought up the VM's ...

22.07.2019 · To prevent snapshot files from merging with the parent snapshot if, for example, an update or installation fails, first use the Restore command to restore to a previous snapshot. This action invalidates the snapshot delta disks and deletes the memory file. You can then use the Delete option to remove the snapshot and any associated files.

in case you are using VM based backup software, ensure that there's no "hanging" open task, and that the VM's virtual disk is not attached (hot- ...

VMware vCenter Appliance 6.7 u2 and tree ESXi hosts version 6.5.0. During backup last weekend, vCenter was unable to delete the snapshot after Veeam backup on ...

Solved: I am unable to create or delete snapshot files either using VCenter or the CLI. I believe it is due to there being too many snapshot files.

Solved: Trying to Consolidate Disk or delete snap shots to be able to convert VMware to Hyper V. Have already done this with a different VM ...

This means you have a bad vmsd - and the result is Veeam can not clean up after each backup = you will run out of free space soon. Because of ...

20.07.2009 · You can't power On the VM, it does not work…. and you can't stop the task of deleting snapshot either… Here what you should try: 1. Connect to the ESX Host via SSH. 2. Run this command “Service mgmt-vmware restart” to restart the service. 3. If then the VM works, just leave like this, otherwise try to restart the ESX Host. 4.

14.01.2020 · Solved: Ho folks, I can't delete a snapshot it says " A general system error occurred: vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault" And I don't have any

Solved: Hello All, Can you help me with with issue from below. vCenter server has some old snapshot and when I try to delete I receive error ...

18.06.2021 · This issue occurs if the backup proxy virtual machine or other virtual machine holds a lock on the base disk or previous snapshot file of the virtual machine that has the consolidation issue, preventing the snapshot consolidation to succeed. Resolution To resolve this issue, remove the virtual machine disk (s) from backup proxy VM.