![]() ![]() Prior to vSphere 5 there was a possibility to fix such a situation thru the CLI, now with vSphere 5 you get a extra option in the VM - Snapshot menu called "Consolidate" this feature should clean up any discrepancies between the Snapshot Manager interface and the actual situation at datastore level. This could case all kinds of problems, first of all VM performance issues as the VM is still running in snapshot mode, secondly you are not able to alter the virtual disks of this VM and in the long run your could potentiality run out of space on your datastore because the snapshot keeps on growing. This would result in the snapshot manager interface telling you there are no more snapshots present, but at datastore level they still exist and could even be still in use / still be growing. ![]() VSphere 5 introduced a new feature to clean up VM snapshot "left-overs" which could be the result of a snapshot removal action where the consolidation step has gone bad. ![]()
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