Pre-requisites:-īefore proceeding to deploy a Virtual Machine, a question may arise in your mind if you are new to this that what is pre-requisties to deploy a Virtual Machine. Here in this article we are going to cover point 1 to Create a Virtual Machine from Scratch even if we do not have any existing VM or Template in our environment. Create a Virtual Machine from Scratch without Template (We will cover in this topic).There are many options listed below to Deploy a Virtual Machine in your vSphere Environment. Options, like Task Scheduler for VM Deployment. And also there are few changes while creating VM that VMware made in vSphere 6.5 that I would like to highlight here. I understand that it's an easy process for most of you to create a VM, but still for beginners it can be usefull. Usually we call it a VM or Guest Machine. Before explaining in further articles about virtual machine, let's have some quick steps how we create a new Virtual Machine in vSphere 6.5. Today, we saw the solution provided by our Support Engineers to this error.So once again we are here for another topic on Deploying a New Virtual Machine. In short, this warning indicates that while deleting a snapshot, the snapshot VMDK files or logs have not been deleted correctly. You must get the list of all the VMs with the status ‘Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed’: Get-VM | Where-Object
To do it, connect to your vCenter server: Connect-VIServer mun_ You can also find all the virtual machines that require consolidation using PowerCLI. Try consolidating the snapshots as described above. Using vMotion, move the VM to another ESXi.ĥ. Using the ‘Delete All’ option, delete all the VM snapshots.Ĥ. Moreover, you can try unlocking the VM files as follows.ģ. To do it, run the below command after connecting to the host via SSH. In such a case, VMWare recommends restarting Management agents on the ESXi server. In a few cases, you may see the below error in the vSphere console during consolidation.
It might take a few minutes for the consolidation to take place and the VM performance may degrade.įinally, the warning of the VM consolidation must disappear. As a result, the vCenter will consolidate disks and clear the logs. Here, click on Yes to confirm that you want to delete the redundant logs. Then a window with the below request appears. Now let’s see how our Support Engineers assist our customers in resolving this warning message.įirst, right-click on the virtual machine and select VM > Snapshots > Consolidate. 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.