How we resolve ‘VMWare: virtual machine disks consolidation is needed’ warning

Having any connection issues between the vCenter Server and the ESXi host. So ensure that there are no running processes of a virtual machine backup.Ĥ. If the vSphere or a third-party app has locked snapshot files. No enough space on the VMFS store to perform consolidationģ. It happens due to a timeout or a large size of a snapshot.Ģ. Snapshots can’t be deleted due to poor storage performance. Here are the different causes of this VMWare error to occur.ġ.

What causes ‘VMWare: virtual machine disks consolidation is needed’ warning to appear Today we will take a look at the causes for this error and see how to fix it. Here at Bobcares, we have seen several such VMWare related errors as part of our Server Management Services for web hosts and online service providers. The warning ‘VMWare: virtual machine disks consolidation is needed’ indicates that while deleting a snapshot, the snapshot VMDK files or logs have not been deleted correctly.

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