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…
Veeam Backup & Replication job failed with warning – vmdk size changed
Yesterday I increased the size of a disk on a VM and today the backup job failed with a warning: Disk [DataStore1] Server1/Server1.vmdk size changed. Changed block tracking is disabled. This was because I didn’t rescan the vCenter server within…
Error creating a datastore in ESXi 5.5
I have just downloaded a trial copy of ESXi 5.5 and installed it onto a server with 3 hard disks. The hypervisor is installed on disk 1 but when attempting to create datastores on disks 2 and 3 I receive…
Using ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver
While trying to recover a virtual server that wouldn’t boot (NTLDR missing) I came across a wonderful tool called ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver. It allowed me to mount a VMDK file on my Windows 7 workstation and access it like…