An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine
I am trying to clone a virtual machine but the task fails with the following error: An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine I also see Event ID 7011 logged in the System event…
vSphere 6.0 – create a new alarm for snapshots using the vSphere Web Client
We all know that snapshots can be dangerous if left to grow out of control – they will fill the datastore!. I always like to try and mitigate this risk by creating a new alarm definition to generate an…
An error occurred while consolidating disks
Having received an alert that I need to consolidate disks on a VM I proceeded to do so. However, after an hour or so the operation failed with this message: The maximum consolidate retries was exceeded for scsi0:1 I tried…
Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed
This morning one of my VMs was reporting that virtual machine disks consolidation is needed, as shown in the screenshot below: I believe this was caused by a Veeam backup job, as there was also a snapshot size warning, but…
A general system error occurred: unable to save the snapshot file
For the last hour or so I have been attempting to take a VM snapshot on my ESXi 5 host at home but keep encountering the f0llowing error: A general system error occurred: unable to save the snapshot file I have…