Deletion of snapshots failed, how to remove snapshots?

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  The question: How can I delete the snapshots to regain space on the SAN without the servers? I tried to move them before deleting in another folder first to find that the server would not load without them in the same folder as the files from the server, so I had to move their back on the server that I moved to the source so that it can start again. Snapshots are is more listed in the Snapshot Manager but are always on him WITHOUT taking much space I want to return to.

  I was told that vCenter would be able to delete all snapshots of without slot all servers, it's that good, I was told that there is a command option in vCenter which has delete all snapshots of all servers as a command is how delete all snapshots are more listed in the Manager of shapshot that are always in place of data in storage?

  Or y at - it another way to remove unnecessary snapshots of without any servers to start without the old clichés?

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• How to remove the snapshot works

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  I have a VM with snapshot 1 and it is the parent of the current state of the virtual machine. Then I caught a few updates, snapshot 2 and it becomes the parent of the current state of the virtual machine.

  1. If I return my VM to snapshot 1 and remove the 2 snapshot will be the 2A merged with snapshot 1 snapshot. Because I read somewhere "if we choose to delete a single snapshot, then just this snapshot is merged into its parent Preview"

  2. what happens if I delete the snapshot 2 without going back to the VM to the snapshot 1.

  
  

  Thanks and greetings

  J.P. Raynaud
  

  Welcome to the community,

  the wording is the kind of confusion. If you "delete" a snapshot, its content is merged into its direct parent. If you go back to a snapshot, all changes will be discarded but the snapshot will still be visible but the snapshot file is essentially empty, when you delete this snapshot after returning to it, so there's nothing that can / will be merged with its parent company.

  André

• Do not delete of snapshot

  Hi, have a customer with esxi 3.5.  They are run on the local storage and got close to running out of space.  It turns out that one of the VMS had snapshots on it.  So I tried to delete the snapshots via the Snapshot Manager.  Unfortuanatly I ran out of space, before he could finish and it failed at the end of 95%.  Was able to delete some ISO files to free up some more space and then I stop certain VM to free up space in swap files.

  Anyway, I was then able to delete all snapshots via the Snapshot Manager, however, he said that he deleted and finished but snapshots files are still there, plus I now how very little space left to even start my VM.

  Is it safe to remove manually the snapshot files if the Snapshot Manager says he is not more instant?

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  Mike

  You can take a new snapshot instant, just after that choose to delete all snapshot again. I will not recommend you manually delete the snapshot. Another method, you can consider to clone the new virtual machine, but this need for additional disk space

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• Delete a snapshot

  Hi all

  Our largest VM, there is a residue of a snapshot of Veeam since January. The use of the disc is 1.46 TB. I guess delete this snapshot will take some time and use the heavy disk activity. I will in a Summit out of time.

  My question: is it possible to remove the snapshot while the virtual machine is running and what do you think how long it will take? To disconnect the virtual machine is not really an option, and I'm not sure that the snapshot deletion process would be much faster.

  Thank you

  Edy

  The time limit is proportional to the amount of data that the virtual machine is written during consolidation, if the virtual machine is running. If this virtual machine has very high I/O consolidation then process may stop VM to the last step. This is not mandatory, but depend on the size of VMDK, VM e/s and health/performance of the storage.

  I suggest doing this powered off-State, as you say of vmdk is great. But if you want to power on State, then do it hours when there is not a lot of activity on the data store and VM is less accessible.

• Deletion of snapshots to recover from data store space

  ESXi 4.1

  I have an ESXi host Miss space on one of its data warehouses. No 911 short, but short enough so that something needs to be done in a few weeks. On this data store, we created snapshots of some servers Exchange 2010 hosted before installing a custom Microsoft patch. So we have a server HUB, CASES and MB each with a single shot of several months that we will never have to come back. In this navigation data store, some of these 00001.vmdk files are huge, almost up to the size of the player it is a snapshot of. I believe it happened when we had backup problems and drive full of balls of trans.

  In any case, I want to remove these snapshots in snapshot Manager on each of those virtual machines by selecting the snapshot and hit delete. The problem is I've read different information about what will happen. Some of the information I've read says even this will take even MORE space. I don't know how that's possible, but I wanted to get in the forums before doing anything.

  Delete the snapshots will delete all files in capture instant hard, recovering a ton of space on the data store?

  TIA!

  The OMI 30 GB should be enough. When you delete the snapshot with the virtual machine, a snapshot of assistance is created, which will consume disk space necessary for any change, even if the current snapshot is being deleted more ~ 4GB for the snapshot file (.vmsn).

  With the virtual machine off, you will not need any addiitonal disk sapce. However, you won't be able to turn on the virtual machine again, until it's finished!

  André

• Delete all snapshots completely hosed my server

  I have a server ESXi 5, a 750 GB (698GB or so, is usable) local data store, quad Xeon, and 16 GB of RAM. There are two vm (s) - we're a firewall which takes about 10 GB (20 has been allocated) and the other is an Exchange Server that has 500 GB allocated was almost complete with the exception of about 10 GB. Both have been implemented using thin provisioned disks. There are also approximately 4 or 5 pictures taken of the Exchange virtual machine. Thinking that I had to delete the snapshots before you try to resize the virtual drive of 500 GB, I hit the button Delete button instant everything. All the snapshots have been removed from the list and then I could not start the virtual machine due to the lack of storage. He said that nearly 698 GB has been awarded! Then I deleted the tiny snapshots for virtual firewall machine and was able to boot the virtual machine Exchange. After doing a little housekeeping on the vm changes that I stopped him. Try to solve the delete all snapshots problem, I tried the "consolidate all snapshots' option. After several hours of waiting it failed due to lack of space. So, I thought I would reboot the physical machine to see if that helped. When he returned he showed that TB 1.4 or so, space has been allocated! And I could not start anything. Then I ran down to the server room, installed a 750 GB extra hd and started trying to move the virtual machine to empty disk. Well, who seems to have been an even worse mistake to delete all snapshots. Not only this process fails, but now the new hd (datastore2) is completely filled and the original datastore1 has about 132 GB free. The problem with this is that the virtual machine is now spread over these two data stores. Now, I've added another store of data via nfs (nfsdatastore) that has free 2.6 TB and I'm currently copy the entire contents of datastore2 via the cp command in a terminal (ssh remotely controlled).

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  OK, so let's try to clone the virtual disk in the NAS data store. Please follow the steps below and ask if there is something you don't understand or something does not work as expected.

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  • move 'UDT MX09 (Exchange EPSI)-000005.vmdk' to "datastore2/UDT-MX09-EPSI" on "datastore1/UDT-MX09-EPSI-2".
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  If cloning is successful, do a right-click the virtual machine in the inventory and select 'Remove inventory', then - using the browser from data store - click with the right button on the .vmx file in the folder of the virtual machine on the NAS data store and select "add to the inventory. When you start the virtual computer you may be asked if you have moved or copied the VM. Make sure you select that "I moved it.

  André

  Post edited by: a.p. - deleted '-delta "(error in copy & paste) vmkfstools command

• Can not power on vm after the deletion of snapshots

  Hello, I'm afraid that I watered a virtual machine. It's on ESXi 4.1. I deleted all snapshots and now I can not power on a virtual machine. Power on the selection is grayed out.

  Is there a way to get back on this virtual machine? I still see the 10G vmdk file in the data store if it matters.

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  How big are the snapshots? Maybe the process is still ongoing! Generally remove snapshots works without problems if you run lack of disk space, so I think you need to just be patient.

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• Problem with deletion of snapshots

  Hello

  I have a problem with deletion of snapshots for virtual machine running on ESXi 3.5. I had a problem with the lack of free space on the drive where VM is hosted. I managed to free up space and wanted to commit snapshots (delete) to free additional space. Unfortunately, at the time of the withdrawal of clichés that I ran out of space again on this store now I'm stuck with clichés present in the store but not visible in the Snapshot Manager.

  Any suggestions on how I can get rid of these pictures now? All I can think is move VM converter of this virtual machine to a new one.

  Thanks, Marcin

  The reason that you ran out of space is the way a "Delete All" is handled.

  I guess in your case a 'Delete All' may temporarily need up to approximately 115 GB of additional disk space. Troubleshooting VM snapshot problems perfectly describes the process. Take a look at the animation in the "process behind 'Remove all' snapshots '.

  So what you can do is:

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  -Cold clone or V2V the VM in another data store

  -Recreate the vmsd file based on the instantaneous channel from the header vmdk files and delete the snapshots one by one starting with the first (oldest) snapshot. If you want to try this make sure you fully understand other snapshots that it will end in the corruption of data!

  Due to the size and the possible impacts on the storage I recommend doing this during peak hours and with the virtual machine shut down.

  If you have a different available datastore (~ 300GB), I would recommend cloning. This does not affect the original files in case something goes wrong. If the clone works, you can safely remove the "old" VM and files and migrates the virtual computer is back to datastore original.

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• deletion of snapshots

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• Problem of deletion of snapshot - not access file &lt; unspecified file name &gt; because it is locked.

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