Clicking the consolidate button of the virtual machine does not. To identify a disk lock, you need to clear all expected locks on the disks. Troubleshooting issues resulting from locked virtual disks 2107795. Consolidate snapshots in the vsphere web client vmware. Ensure nextgen app performance, infrastructure, and security. Kind of fixing the barn door here after the horses have left, but check vmware tools, and make sure its working as it should up and going, current version, installed, and etc. Virtual machine disks consolidation failed solutions. To illustrate this, lets look at an example where we have a virtual machine residing on a 600gb vmfs datastore that has a 500gb base disk, and that virtual machine. When deleting one or more snapshots or consolidating disks, you see this error.
Changes to snapshot consolidation vmware support insider. This might happen, for example, if you delete a snapshot but its associated disk does not commit back to the base disk. Make sure your vm doesnt have its disks mounted in another vm, in this case our veeam virtual machine did not release the disks when it was done backing it up for some reason, removing the disks allowed us to consolidate the vm. Disk consolidation needed unable to access file since it is locked. Consolidatingcommitting snapshots in esxi 1002310 vmware kb. Refer to investigating virtual machine file locks on esxi 10051 first prior to moving on. Oct 09, 2015 voila, i was near the solution, since the virtual disks consolidated into one disk and the vm properties disk file linked to the right vmdk file.
This how doesnt mean that the consolidation failed, simply just it takes so long that the client will think itd timed out. So after i detach it, i consolidate it with the hope that it only impacting one of the drive that was used for backup dump only. The issues below pertain to vsphere data protection vdp 5. Configuring vmware vcenter server to send an alarm when virtual machines are running from snapshots duration. I have configuration issues with my file server vm replica i get this massage configuration issues virtual machine disks consolidation is needed i cant make consolidate detected an invalid snapshot configuration i have continues job every 2 hours but now the jobs failed any ideas are welcomed. Consolidate snapshots in the vsphere client vmware. Snapshot consolidation is useful when snapshot disks fail to compress after a delete or delete all operation. Ive seen cases when the whole process took over 5 hours. Otherwise you need to have enough space in your datastore to run consolidation.
Find answers to virtual machine disks consolidation failed from the. Last week i delievered a vmware vsphere fast track course and the question came up if it was possible to configure an alarm for virtual machine disks consolidation is needed. Locked disks, snapshot consolidation errors, and msg. Sep 26, 2012 use powercli to consolidate snapshots in vsphere 5 september 26, 2012 7 comments in vsphere 5 a virtual machine can have a virtual machine disks consolidation is needed configuration issue warning in the summary tab. Install vmware vcenter converter standalone into the virtual machine. After removing the vmdk from veeam, the disk consolidation was completed. When the maximum of iterations if reached, the vm is stunned and a. I can see the vms disks still attached to the veeam proxy. For more information about the individual bulletins, see the. Snapshot consolidation vm gets unresponsive during snapshot. The issue is if you look at the overview of vms such as hosts and clusters view you will not be able to see if any vms has warning virtual machine disks consolidation is. This is the esxi server which has the lock on the vmdk file. The snapshot consolidation command searches for hierarchies or delta disks to combine without violating data dependency.
Virtual machine disks consolidation veeam community forums. The same thing happened to me where i moved a bunch of vms from one san to another, the backup kicked off in the eveneing, and after the snapshots were removed, disk consolidation. If you are unable to reboot esxi host, consider cloning the disk in question and create a new disk. Custom alarm for virtual machine disks consolidation is needed.
Use powercli to consolidate snapshots in vsphere 5. Failed to lock the file or one or more disks are busy deleting virtual. Plan for routine virtual machine down time to remove unconsolidated files to avoid this problem. Apr 06, 2016 consolidation failed for disk node scsi0. I didnt capture this at the time but it will look something similar to that shown on the vmware kb article. Powercli command to list all virtual machines that need disk consolidation. Snapshot consolidation after backing up a virtual machine fails with. Open up vsphere and right click the vm that is having the disk consolidation errors. Disks need consolidation following veeam snapshot removal. Consolidate snapshots in the vsphere web client you can combine such disks without violating a data dependency. Most likely reason is a virtual disk being locked by some external process. Alternatively, you can turn off the virtual machine and forcibly consolidate the unconsolidated. The warning virtual machine disks consolidation is needed in the summary tab of a virtual machine in the vmware vsphere console means that when deleting a snapshot using the option delete or delete all, the snapshot vmdk files or logs have not been deleted correctly remain on the storage. If you see errors for failed conditions, such as running out of disk space, correct them and run.
List virtual machines that need disks consolidation. Vmware workstation consolidate split multiple disk files. The process for disk consolidation would take a long time. Vmware patch and update releases contain general and critical image profiles. Jan 07, 2014 vmware workstation consolidate split multiple disk files into one big disk i was creating some virtual machines in vmware workstation 10 and didnt realise i had selected the option to split the disks into 2gb files. Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed 185964. Get a free download of vmware vcenter converter to automate and simplify physical to virtual machine conversions as well as conversions between virtual machine formats.
Vm snapshot consolidation attempts have failed veeam. Vmware vcenter error unable to access file since it is. Dec 08, 2010 configuring vmware vcenter server to send an alarm when virtual machines are running from snapshots duration. If you removed their file its posible to fail consolidation. Troubleshooting locked virtual disks on vmfs volumes. Application of the general release image profile applies to new bug fixes. In some cases, vsan takes a long time to mark a disk as degraded, even though io failures are reported by the disk and vsan has stopped servicing any further ios from that disk. The powercli command in listing 1 will return all the virtual machines that need disk consolidation.
The needs consolidation column in the vsphere web client shows the virtual machines to consolidate. Then it goes to 60 minutes per snapshot consolidation cycle. App security and networking solution for private, public, and hybrid clouds. The needs consolidation column in the vsphere client shows the virtual machines that need to be consolidated and the virtual machines summary tab shows a configuration issues consolidation message if the virtual machine needs to be consolidated. Vmware workstation consolidate split multiple disk files into one big disk i was creating some virtual machines in vmware workstation 10 and didnt realise i had selected the option to split the disks into 2gb files. You are unable to consolidate vm snapshot due to file lock. If the task failed, check the event log for failed conditions, such. Fix vm snapshot in vmware vsphere when file locked opvizor.
Prior to this version we had to create a manual snapshot and delete all the snapshot to force the disk consolidation per vmware suggestions. Virtual machine disk consolidation failed dhanarajramesh jun 11, 2014 7. Display the need consolidation column in the vsphere client. We had successful with snapshot hunter until the last few days. Jul 17, 2019 the warning virtual machine disks consolidation is needed in the summary tab of a virtual machine in the vmware vsphere console means that when deleting a snapshot using the option delete or delete all, the snapshot vmdk files or logs have not been deleted correctly remain on the storage. Fix vm snapshot in vmware vsphere when file lock cannot be released. When you initiate snapshots deletion, virtual machine disks consolidation happens along with snapshot delete operation. Canceling a manual restore to an existing vm causes consolidation needed on the existing vm.
If the vm snapshot consolidation doesnt work well as the incoming data rate is too high, vmware is increasing the asynchronous consolidation run cycle from 5 to 10, 20, 30 and so on until the 9th iterations. I got an alert this morning that one of my vm backups have failed, due to hostname. Delete the snapshots while the virtual machine is turned off. Backup operation on the vdp appliance fails or is interrupted. Dec 23, 2010 when trying to perform an online consolidation there is not enough space on the datastore to perform the consolidation. Disk space shows slightly less after turning it off 501. The backup solution is running on a virtual machine or a virtual appliance. When using san transport to backup vmware vms, the backup server can hold a lock on a vmdk file in the datatstore, preventing you from consolidating after a backup.
A virtual machine fails to respond when using backup software and. Clean up needs to be implemented for the canceled restore operations. If there is a consolidation issue and the virtual machine is powered on, trigger a consolidate task to write a new set of log entries to assist in troubleshooting the issue. On most distributions, the physical devices, such as devhda ide physical disk and devsdb scsi physical disk belong to groupid disk. This is mainly due to the way snapshots are consolidated. This rollup bulletin contains the latest vibs with all the fixes since the initial release of esxi 6. Browsing the datastore of the vm i noticed that an old differential disk file was not deleted it is the vmdk file that its filename ends with a number.
Vmware validated design for softwaredefined data center. Virtual machine disk consolidation is the root of the failure, and this will cause further backups to fail. When a virtual machine snapshot consolidation fails in vsphere, a configuration issue warning is reported in the summary tab of a vm. Currently this is localised to one host and affects virtual machines running on both local storage as well as an iscsi san. Cannot consolidate snapshots for largecapacity disks. You can initiate a consolidation of the vmdks manually by right clicking on the vm and selecting snapshot consolidate. Use powercli to consolidate snapshots in vsphere 5 robert. Check that the backup appliance or job does not have a lock on the virtual machine disk if it does remove the disk from the appliance often no snapshot will appear in snapshot manager. Troubleshooting issues resulting from locked virtual. Virtual machine disk consolidation failed vmware communities. Snapshot consolidation vm gets unresponsive during. Finding vmware snapshots can already be a nasty and difficult task as some of these hidden or just hard to find as the vsphere environment is pretty large.
Either restore the entire vm with an imagelevel backup or restore the disk level backup as a new disk on the original vm. For the second straight day, the disk consolidation has failed stuck snapshot. After consolidation, redundant disks are removed, which improves virtual machine performance and saves storage space. During a snapshot consolidation, the virtual machine does not respond. Voila, i was near the solution, since the virtual disks consolidated into one disk and the vm properties disk file linked to the right vmdk file. If this is the case, you can add vmware workstation users to the disk group. If the virtual machine fails to power on, skip this item as well as iii a. Right click the vm and go to snapshot take a snapshot do a nonmemory and a nonquiesced snapshot of the vm the name does not matter, but you do have to name it something. Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed this can occur when a snapshot has been deleted and removed from snapshot manager, but the consolidation of the vmdks on disk have failed.
Tool for software delivery automation and troubleshooting with release pipelines and analytics. Disk consolidation needed unable to access file since it is. Alternatively, you can turn off the virtual machine and forcibly consolidate the unconsolidated disks by using the vsphere web client. Backup leaving snapshots behind is 75% of the time the end result of vmware tools not working properly. When trying to perform an online consolidation there is not enough space on the datastore to perform the consolidation. Disk consolidation needed unable to access file since it. Failed to lock the file3 created by emc techcom on jun 14. Unable to consolidate virtual machine snapshots due to file lock by. Make sure the master physical disk device or devices are readable and writable by the user who runs vmware workstation. Yes, it was failed before since one of the sql server disk was attached to the veeam backup proxy vm. How to consolidate a snapshot in vmware esx when there are.
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