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An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual machine

January 16, 2017 · by dave.webb · in Troubleshooting, vCentre

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

vSphere 6.0 – create a new alarm for snapshots using the vSphere Web Client

September 25, 2016 · by dave.webb · in ESX, Storage, Tips and Tricks, vCentre

  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

An error occurred while consolidating disks

September 11, 2014 · by dave.webb · in ESX, Troubleshooting, vCentre

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

Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed

September 9, 2014 · by dave.webb · in ESX, ESXi, Maintenance, Troubleshooting

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

June 6, 2012 · by dave.webb · in ESXi, Troubleshooting

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…

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