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Virtual Machine disks consolidation failed

Hi People,

What should I do to consolidate the VMware VM that is currently displaying the error message as follows:

Configuration Issues
Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed

Usually when the EMC Avamar backup failed to close the snapshot what I usually do is right click on the VM and then Delete all the snapshot from Snapshot manager.

This time the Delete snapshot task was successfully completed BUT the consolidation was reported as failed ?

resulting the VM hard disk 1 to point into DevOPS01-VM-000002.vmdk

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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Albert Widjaja

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yes, there are two VMDK with -00001 and -00002 files with the same name of the VM.

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Yes, those are snapshots, follow my first post.

Albert Widjaja

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so what about right click and selecting "Consolidate" option ?
I've never tried this before, so I'm wondering what does it do to the VM ?

can I still do it while the VM is online ?

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Albert Widjaja

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Thanks !