Problem deleting snapshots

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• Problem deleting snapshot via PowerCLI

  I can see the snapshot via command line, but not through the vSphere Client.

  Cannot remove Instant said.

  > Get - VM | Get-Snapshot | Select the virtual machine, created name

  VM                         Name                                 Created

  sp3vtst Scheduled_Snapshot 11/06/2013 16:35:08

  Impossible to remove it:

  > Remove-Snapshot - Snapshot $Scheduled_Snapshot

  Remove-Snapshot: failed to validate the argument on the parameter "snapshot." The

  argument is null. Supply a non-null argument, and try the command again.

  On line: 1 char: 27

  + Delete-Snapshot - Snapshot $Scheduled_Snapshot

  +                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [delete-screenshot], ParameterBin)

  dingValidationException

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutom

  ation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.RemoveSnapshot

  Of course, IE my my $Scheduled_Snapshot setting is incorrect.

  I tried without the $, between single quotes and double, na - da

  As I said, I'm not in the client.  Could be false information of the command Get - VM?

  I tried to delete the virtual machine to inventory, time, create a snapshot and remove all of the customer.  Don't know what to try next.

  I have installation jobs to take pictures before the updates of Windows.  Now I would like to delete them via PowerCLI.

  Thank you

  D

  Try it like this

  Get-VM-name sp3vtst | Get-Snapshot - name 'Scheduled_Snapshot ' | Remove-Snapshot - confirm: $false

• Error when you try to delete snapshots

  Hello

  I have problems when you try to manually delete snapshots of our ReadyNAS. The error is displayed when it fails is 28004020002. After a search through your forums it seems most of the time you ask newspapers, and then it seems that the problem is solved. So if need be I have newspapers available on request.

  One of the suggestions also says try a defrag on the device and that pops up and displays a different error message: 14007010000. I don't know if that is related, but I have not dug deep in this one I would like to help with the first issue first please

  All comments are greatly appreciated.

  This is the topic I was looking at early to try to help with my problem.

  https://community.NETGEAR.com/T5/backing-up-to-your-ReadyNAS/error-when-trying-to-delete-snapshot/TD...

  Fixed.

  Please do not restart the system until the balance is over. The balance will take time to complete.

  You can see the progress made in the web administration interface.

  In addition, you can plan a balance to say run every 2-3 weeks.

• Reasons for SLOW create / delete snapshots

  Hello

  We run 5.1 ESXi hosts in a cluster.

  We have added a number of virtual machines to the cluster, and so the use of the memory of each ESXi host is about 60%.  Network administrator also performs a network change lately (he said it shouldn't affect VMWare).

  However, it takes much more time for us to create / delete snapshot.  Wonder if it may be due to network problem OR just we are running out of memory in ESXi hosts / SAN Performance?

  Your opinion is requested.

  Hello

  Before we dive more deep, the main issue here - what is was exactly the scope of this network change? It seems that something has changed on the network affecting the connection between ESXi host & network storage interfaces shared. Also, you must ensure that change did not affect VAAI availability on your space of storage as well as snapshots are handled directly on the drive bays. A delta disc is created, the basic disk is read-only and all writes are then carried out on delta drive. The snapshot delete commits these changes. But of course, you should check your SAN performance if it does not hit the bottleneck by chance (CPU, memory, input/output).

  If you get the information on what has changed, we can help you further.

• When to delete snapshots in parent pool view image

  Hi all

  Some of our master images for our pools have a lot of photos and I want to clean them. The problem is, last time I deleted a snapshot on a master image that someone in the pool had disconnected from non-persistent desktop before I had time to recompose the pool and when that office is to refresh it failed (because the snapshot, I removed was in the path of snapshots to the snapshot pool was built out of). Not only he made the effect each Office update in this pool, the error stopped the View Composer vCenter Server server then NO more desktops in any pool could not be refreshed.

  So, my question is... What is the mechanism for deleting snapshots in a pool?

  Thank you

  You should not disable the pool.  Just disable commissioning of the pool.  In this way the opportunity to recompose do kick in while you do your work on the parent.  When you are finished, you can enable and then commissioning on the pool again.

  

• How to create an effective script that mass deletes snapshots

  our company is currently using a product that drives the operating system and software updates for our virtual machines and takes a snapshot before pushing updates in case something breaks. the problem is that the same software does not remove the pictures until next update button and you're just too long we wait with snapshots lying around. what I did to remedy this situation is I built the below script and configured it as a task.

  # Add the snap-snap powercli in
  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

  # Connect to an instance of vCenter
  $strviserver = "vCenterServer".
  SE connect-VIServer $strviserver

  # Get all of the snapshots for each virtual machine in the vcenter, then delete them
  Get - VM | Get-Snapshot - name "updates" | Remove-Snapshot - confirm: $false

  # Remove the snap-snap powercli in
  Remove-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

  It works, but it is not nearly as effective as I wish it were. Essentially, the script currently removes a snapshot at a time right now. I want so he can find any snapshot on this server vcenter by the same specified name and submit the task deletion-Snapshot for each snapshot at the same time. This should cause a lot of tasks to try and tail. The effective result would be that vCenter will treat all instant destruction because it has resources to do in a given time and will address the queue there resources.  If someone can tell me how to do this or something better, I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

  You can consider using the RunAsync switch on the cmdlet Remove-Snapshot .

  In this way, that the script will continue while delete the snapshot is still running.

  Note that there is obviously that a limit on how many parallel snapshot removes that may occur due to the resources available.

• Error running VDR: Trouble reading files, error-3942 (delete Snapshot failed)

  Hello

  I currently have a problem with my VDR backups. as indicated in the title, the error I get is "error running VDR: Trouble reading files, error-3942 (delete Snapshot failed)".

  Background

  We are currently running VMware Vsphere version 4.0.0 on VDR version 1.1.0.707. We have a task of backup running in Vsphere that takes a snapshot of every night of the VM. It is then wrapped on tape for the archive.

  Question

  All of the virtual machine is backup successfully except one. I get the error message is as above: "error running VDR: Trouble reading files, error-3942 (delete Snapshot failed)".

  The backup task completed successfully, and the virtual machine can be restored from a backup. However, the virtual machine always has a snapshot and in addition, the virtual disk to the virtual machine is still attached to the host.

  The current will of this issue that we use is:

  (1) stop the VDR Server

  (2) remove the attached hard disk

  (3) to take a snapshot of the virtual machine

  (4) delete all snapshots.

  I would like to find a solution to the underlying cause, as the current will is tedious and time consuming.

  Another note, the logic unit number that the virtual machine is currently has a block size of 2 MB while all other virtual machines have a block size of 1 MB...

  If you need any additional info, feel free to ask.

  See you soon,.

  http://www.VMware.com/support/VDR/doc/vdr_120_releasenotes.html#upgrade

• Host of hard drive is full - need to delete snapshots

  Hello

  I try to help someone who has a Mac running Windows 7 64 bit Pro using VMware Fusion 5.0.3.  They have a hard disk of 1 TB but now only 725 MB of free space!

  I checked the settings of VMware and they had AutoProtect Snapshots on 1 dollar a day, and set "maximum number of snapshots to keep: ' 3.

  When you view the instant history, it shows that there are 51 snapshots with the first (oldest) being 55.4 GB, GB 8.7 second and third 958,3 MB.  There is also a second tree that has only one sheet about 20 shots later.

  What is the best way to remove these pictures I saw barley have any storage space.

  I also don't mind not completely destroy all snapshots and new.

  Thanks in advance!

  haachee wrote: I'm not afraid also completely destroy all snapshots and new.

  What do you mean exactly by that?

  What is the best way to remove these pictures I saw barley have any storage space.

  With this little space it is really not that you can do with this package of Virtual Machine on this disk is almost full for correctly * clean. * Properly, i.e. delete snapshots via the Snapshot Manager.  You must either release the right amount of space needed to accomplish the task or temporarily move the package of Virtual Machine to another disk that has the amount of space needed for the appropriate task.

  There are other options, but I guess that when you answer the question I asked can I give more details.

  BTW DO NOT try a whole instant deletion via the snapshot to manage with so littk of free space on the disk of the host that you will break it doing!

• Instant VMDK files do not delete after deleting snapshots

  Hi - I have a server SLES/OES2 with two discs - 75 and 750 GB.  I deleted a few shots after that test app and I'm back to instant No.  The data store always shows two files VMDK - server_1 - 000001.vmdk (17 GB) and server_1 - 000002.vmdk (56 GB).  The second is still active in this sound change timestamp.

  This is the last section of the VMX file:

  debugStub.linuxOffsets = "0x2d1ac, 0xffffffff, 0 x 0 0 x 0, 0xc58223b, 0x0, 0xc582254, 0x0, 0x2d1a8, 0 x 0 0 x 0 0 x 0, 0xc58226c, 0 x 0"

  scsi0:1.filename = "SSS-SLES-TEST_1 - 000002.vmdk.

  scsi0:1.mode = "persistent".

  scsi0:1.ctkEnabled = "FALSE".

  scsi0:1.DeviceType = "scsi-disk" hard

  scsi0:1.present = 'TRUE '.

  scsi0:1.redo = «»

  I got 32 GB free in the data store until I deleted snapshots, then he went to 0 GB free!  I deleted ISO files, and now it's up to 3.7 GB free. The total data store is 1.36 TB

  There were not errors when deleting sanpshot - although it took awhile.

  All this started because I had forgotten that this VM had snapshots and I started to copy the data to the server and got a warning that server_1 - 000001.vmdk was full and remove the space.

  I don't think that the virtual machine is healthy!  Any suggestions?

  Thank you

  You can try to power down the virtual machine, taking another cliché and with a bit of luck the entire tree of the snapshot will be detected. After that, keep the VM down and try to delete all snapshots.

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1002310 also have relevant information and instructions, you can follow.

  Marcelo Soares

  VMWare Certified Professional 310/410

  Technical Support Engineer

  Globant Argentina

  Review the allocation of points for "useful" or "right" answers.

• problem with deleting snapshot

  Hi all

  I had a preview of the virtual machine on a server esxi 4.1, build 320137

  When I later (1 day) removed the snapshot (action to "remove all" in the snapshots in vSphere client Manager), I got an error saying:

  Delete all snapshots

  < myvmname >

  Cannot access the file

  < not specified

  file name > because it is

  locked

  root

  At this point is no longer the snapshot, according to the vSphere client as well as the command line:

  / vmfs/volumes/4cb6cf27-7 d 884680-68bf-00221965eca8 # vim - cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get 176
  Download Snapshot:

  (176 is the vmid of my machine)

  but in fact, the snapshot is always present, with delta 3 (one for each disc) of about 1 GB (it's a busy machine, with 1 disk 16 GB o.s.

  and 2 200 GB, nearly full drives)

  the question is: what can I do to merge the delta vmdk into their respective discs?

  Or what I can do to create 3 new discs containing all the data, for example using vmkfstools

  (then I'll replace it with these new old records in the vm configuration)

  Operations can also be done in turning off the State without any problem (night...)

  Thanks in advance,

  Andrea

  printing to see it regularly here :-)

  First, take a look at the contents of the virtual machine or watch the vmx to check file that VMDK is being used.

  one you have you need to consolidate the VMDK for this virtual machine must be downwards as in the contrary case, it locks files.

  and then you start vmkfstools-i/vmfs/volumes/datastorename/vmname/vmdk-from-vmx-file new.vmdk

  You will need to run it for all discs, you have on this virtual machine.

  This will consolidate the VMDK, but this alters the 'old'. You must then modify the virtual machine settings and remove the old drives and add custom discs using the new vmdk, you created.

  Once the virtual machine is running, you can clean the old files...

  Good luck

• Deleting snapshot and the functionality of vCenter

  Hello

  Deleting a snapshot of a VM large that could take a few days based on the current speed. And upgrade vCenter 5.1 to 5.5.

  Deleting capture instant impact upgrade deal with? Or it is a strictly local operation on the host?

  Thank you in advance!

  Arkady

  It's strictly local operation in the host until it's not vcenter himself. You can upgrade your vcenter without any problem if the snapshot deletion process is with some other VM. It will keep continue...

• "deleting" snapshot

  I just check, because "I'm afraid to do so.

  I have a public web server VM as a counterpart made a picture of. I asked that he use the snapshot for a short period, but he forgot. Now, it has been well over a month, and he is a very active server.

  I have several questions, which I will put in this post:

  (1) how do I know what size of the snapshot obtained?

  (2) I really hate language in the Snapshot Manager: 'delete' the snapshot. I'm sure (well, not so much, that's why I'm asking) that 'delete' is identical to 'fusion followed by snapshot in VM parent company changes'. Is this fair? So, there's the virtual machine and a single shot. If I delete the snapshot, the guest operating system that is currently running stays exactly as it is - correct?

  (3) how big can get a snapshot before it poses problem being "" merged / "deleted"?

  Thank you for helping me to be comfortable before 'Deleting' this thing...

  You post your questions as soon as I can answer

  For your second post: Yes to all.

  André

• not able to delete snapshots!

  I have a big problem. I tried the Vmware Data Recovery solution, but has had some issues with IO on the SMB destination errors, then several times, this was abandoned etc.

  Now 2 days later I see that I have multiple snapshots on several servers. They do not appear in the Snapshot Manager, but they appear when I click on edit settings and click on the discs (and when I ssh to the host and 'ls' ed. of vmfs)

  I have tried to create a new snapshot and then remove it, and then it is removed from the Snapshot Manager. But it's still there! I tried removesnapshots vmware-cmd "vmx-file", and he told me that the snapshot is deleted. hassnapshots also say no.

  I tried to add a snapshot and remove the GUI (the one who had no snapshot) and it works.

  Ideas?

  After some research, in my case the file base for each virtual computer hard and all deltas except for the most recent include the following line in their hard file:

  DDB. Deletable = "false".

  I was able to remove these snapshots and restore performance by following these steps:

  (1) power down the virtual machine, save all files to a safe place

  (2) in the esx console, cd to the path of VM vmfs touched

  (3) use nano to set ddb.deletable = 'false'-> ddb.deletable = "true" in the root hard (usually hard).  Do the same for any other base files hard disk you have if you have more than one virtual hard disk.

  (4) execute script for comment on the shell of what follows the "ddb.deletable ="false"' lines in the whole of the vmdk files snapshot delta."  Answer y for each file to be replaced if you are prompted:

  for y in *-000?. VMDK; do sed "s/ddb.deletable =" false "/ #ddb.deletable = 'false' / g' $y > temp;"» MV temp $y. fact

  (5) create a snapshot (in virtualcenter client either via vmware-cmd /vmfs/full/path/vmname.vmx createsnapshot foo foo 0 0 esx in console)

  (6) delete all the snapshots (whether in customer virtualcenter or vmware-cmd /vmfs/full/path/vmname.vmx removesnapshots)

  (7) power turn it on the virtual machine, make sure that all right.

  I'm not sure if the upgrade of 3.5-> 4 inserted the parameter initial ddb.deletable that then spread to all deltas, or what exactly happened.  I have also tried (and at present cannot recommend) modifying the vmdk files and from without first powering of the virtual machine.

  I'm suspicious again test VMware Data Recovery, but will do so once I changed all virtual machines, we run and report if the problem has been solved permanently.  I have 2 groups that show this behavior and the other is not, so in theory, the product is able to work

  Good luck out there.

• Manually delete snapshots?

  I have a Windows XP 32 bit invited in a 64-bit Debian Linux host.  I removed the snapshot via the web control page.  It is what remains in the directory...

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16219963392 2009-01-21 06:49 WinXP - 000001.vmdk

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15095365632 on 21-01 - 2009 07:05 WinXP - 000002.vmdk

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64424509440 2009-01-21 06:58 WinXP - flat hard

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8684 on 21-01 - 2009 07:05 WinXP.nvram

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 423 2009-01-21 06:49 WinXP.vmdk

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 492 2009-01-21 06:49 WinXP.vmsd

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2353 on 21-01 - 2009 07:02 WinXP.vmx

  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 260 2009-01-18 22:11 WinXP.vmxf

  There seems to be 2 flying over the snapshot files 31 GB of space occupation.  Infrastructure page indicates there is no snapshot (option only "Take Snapshot" is indicated).  Is it safe to just manually delete the 2 files?

  No problem.

  -KjB

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  Thank you all. I think I found a problem. I found a restore point that has worked!