Snapshots sometimes do not delete

Hello

VM snapshots sometimes do not deleted because out of errors such as:

-Unable to access the file filename not specified

-Impossible to access, unspecified filename file because it is locked

-The virtual disk is either corrupt or not a format supported

Only does not happen on the deletion of snapshots and occurs on a day 1-2 VMs.

As far as I can tell that this is not always the same VM, but I always followed it

Snapshots is created by the method of backup VCB NetBackups and backup 100%

I looks like the deletion of the snapshot has an attempt which fails with the same error

-l' object has already been DELETE or has not fully been created

What is happening is consolidation helper does not show in snapshot Manager, and I need to go

through all the vmdk (RVTools) to search for Orphaned/rogue snapshots and then delete them manually

Q: why the files could be locked or deletion of snapshot fails?

Help will be appreciated

Thank you

Here's a knock out, you can read: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1010310

There are a few reasons why this would happen

-VM busy to not commit snapshot

-Locking VM background tasks

-Backup application do not release the VM files.

I also agree that a 1% failure ratio is not bad, the problem is to manage. This happens on all backup applications.

It seems that you have to manually search for the virtual machines where the shots are not deleted.

That should be handled by the backup software to give you a notification if a snapshot could not be deleted.

I know that some other backup software gives you a notivication during the validation of the snapshot has failed, so it is possible.

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Please allow points if it's useful/correct

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