Removal of hidden snapshots

Everyone knows about the following problem with snapshots and if so do you have a recommendation for a solution?

We have a virtual machine with snapshots that are not displayed in the Snapshot Manager. He is running on a host 4.1 with vmdk files stored on a local disk with size of 1 MB. We need to migrate the computer virtual local storage to a San, but we can't because of the 'hidden' snapshots and try to create a new snapshot fails due to the size limitation of vmdk with size of 1 MB blocks. Error: ' creating a snapshot for a virtual machine fails with the error: file is larger than the maximum file size supported.

We run Essentials Plus with 3 hosts on 4.1. A host is basically test and dev, so we can do what we want with him. Possible workaround only I have seen so far is cold clone the virtual machine to a new data store or try to migrate it to a host on 3.5 or an earlier version. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you.

You can use VMware Converter (which will consolidate snapshots) to move the comments, or cold migration (which will be kept)

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    14 February 14:24:50 vmkernel: 2:04:02:51.756 cpu0:5109) NMP: nmp_CompleteCommandForPath: 0x2a (0x4100051797c0) to the device 'naa.600508b1001030343843434234300500' NMP command failed on the physical path 'vmhba1:C0:T0:L0' H:0 x 1 D:0 x 0 P:0 x 0 Possible sense data: 0 x
    14 February 14:24:50 0 0 x 0 0 x 0.
    14 February 14:24:51 vmkernel: 2:04:02:52.526 cpu2:4343) WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttemptFailover: try tipping unit "naa.600508b1001030343843434234300500" world - order 0x4100050f7fc0
    14 February 14:24:51 vmkernel: 2:04:02:52.533 cpu3:602831) NMP: nmp_CompleteRetryForPath: retry world component 'naa.600508b1001030343843434234300500 '.
    14 February 14:24:55 pass: [14-02-2013 14:24:55.841 71FDBB90 verbose 'ResourcePool ha-root-pool'] root of the pool changed 14300 MHz/6124 MB to 14300 MHz/6128 MB
    14 February 14:24:55 vmkernel: 2:04:02:57.193 cpu0:5109) scsi_cmd_alloc returned NULL
    !
    14 February 14:24:55 vmkernel: 2:04:02:57.193 cpu0:5109) NMP: nmp_CompleteCommandForPath: 0x2a (0x41000507c200) to the device 'naa.600508b1001030343843434234300500' NMP command failed on the physical path 'vmhba1:C0:T0:L0' H:0 x 1 D:0 x 0 P:0 x 0 Possible sense data: 0 x
    14 February 14:24:55 0 0 x 0 0 x 0.
    14 February 14:24:55 vmkernel: 2:04:02:57.193 cpu0:5109) WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRetryCommand: device 'naa.600508b1001030343843434234300500': waiting for updated status of fast path for blocked with e/s failover. No prior reservation is on the device.
    Feb 14 14:24:56 pass: [2013-02-14 14:24:56.498 7201CB90 verbose 'App'] rising object with the name = "haTask - vim.SearchIndex.findByUuid - 750 ' failed.
    Feb 14 14:24:56 pass: [2013-02-14 14:24:56.499 7201CB90 verbose 'App'] rising object with the name = "haTask - vim.SearchIndex.findByUuid - 751 ' failed.
    Feb 14 14:24:56 pass: [2013-02-14 14:24:56.499 7201CB90 verbose 'App'] rising object with the name = "haTask - vim.SearchIndex.findByUuid - 752 ' failed.
    14 February 14:24:56 vmkernel: 2:04:02:58.194 cpu2:4343) WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceAttemptFailover: try tipping unit "naa.600508b1001030343843434234300500" world - order 0x41000507c200
    14 February 14:24:56 vmkernel: 2:04:02:58.203 cpu3:5107) NMP: nmp_CompleteRetryForPath: retry world component 'naa.600508b1001030343843434234300500 '.
    Feb 14 14:24:57 pass: [2013-02-14 14:24:57.500 71FDBB90 verbose 'App'] rising object with the name = "haTask - vim.NfcService.randomAccessOpenReadonly - 754" failed.
    14 February 14:25 pass: [14-02-2013 14:25:00.120 7201CB90 info "TaskManager"] task created: haTask-ha-host - vim.DiagnosticManager.generateLogBundles - 826

    It seems that the ESXi still needs these deleted snapshots.

    What should I do now? Restart the machine would help? Or directly edit the vmx files?

    BTW I would have attached the vmx files but I don't know how to export, the box does not have ssh...

    I'm sorry for the post of beginner, but I'm not very familiar with ESXi 4.

    Thanks for your suggestions,

    Karel

    Do you recommend a specific action before I 'Delete All '?

    The 'Delete All' process can take some time depending on the size of the snapshot and the progress bar can be used to estimate the time remaining. It will always show something superior to 90% until there finishes the job. All I can recommend is to be patient.

    With the ESX version you are using (4.0 before update 2) the "Delete All" will require a lot more time with multiple snapshots in place. There are also if make sure there is enough free disk space on the data store to avoid exit of space conditions. The behavior has changed with ESX 4.0 Update 2.

    André

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