

See the Help Center for more information including reference lists of all Rules and Monitors and full set of User Guides for the Veeam MP for VMware. Deleting a snapshot does not change the VM or other snapshots as it undergoes a consolidation process wherein the delta disk file is committed and merged to the. When the consolidation process is over and succeeded, the monitor will be resolved and switched to the Healthy state. For instructions on how to consolidate snapshots, see this VMware KB article. If consolidation is needed, perform it manually using the vSphere Client or the ESXi command line. This could be caused by some connectivity issues between the vCenter Server and ESXi host. A vSphere or a 3rd party application/process fails to consolidate a snapshot after the snapshot has been deleted.A vSphere or a 3rd party application/process is locking the snapshot which should be deleted.Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed.' without having any snapshots indicated in the Snapshot Manager. The datastore does not have enough space to perform consolidation VM wants disk consolidation, but no snapshots are listed in the Snapshot Manager After a failed replication with VEEAM, I get this on one of my VM's: 'Configuration issues.Datastore performance is low and snapshot deletion/consolidation is timed out.VSphere may report that consolidation is needed in case there is a snapshot on the disk which should be deleted, but the deletion process is stuck in the Consolidation state for one of the following reasons:

This monitor tracks the vCenter alarm that is triggered when virtual machine Consolidation Needed status is set.īy default, the alarm is triggered by the following events:
