virtual machine disks consolidation is needed no snapshots

Of course it says it can’t have access to the disk yet it doesn’t show me who’s locking it.Īfter Googling around I didn’t find much information or success on getting these VM files unlocked. To confirm that, I went into the hostd.log file on the host that it was sitting on and start reviewing the logs. So I assume that the file(s) is locked by NetBackup. I head over to my NetBackup appliance and notice that there are failures for this particular VM.

Then I thought about what might be creating VM snapshots and of course that would be the image based backup solution that I run which is NetBackup.

Upon trying to consolidate the VM, it failed with the following error:Įrror Occurred While Consolidating disks. I then went to ‘Snapshot Manager > Consolidate, to see if I could consolidate the VM’s after confirming there were snapshot files in the datastore (4 of them). I went to snapshot manager and didn’t see any snapshots listed which was odd (come to find out the snapshot DB was corrupt). I thought to myself, I’m the only one that has access to this vSphere environment and I haven’t taken any snapshots of this particular VM recently, so what could be the problem. I was in vCenter the other day and noticed that one of my virtual machines had the following message/warning:

Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed no snapshots