Hi.
I started snapshot consolidation. Snapshot consolidation has been running for 30 hours. Login to the console ends with a timeout. How long can consolidation 2.7TB + 250GB + 400GB vmdk take? Free space in the datastore was 20GB ....
Thanks for the reply.
Try this: VMware Knowledge Base
You got nerves !!!
With just 20 gb free on the datastore the question is not „how long will it take „ but rather „will it work at all without filling up the datastore.“
Hope you are using thick provisioned vmdks.
How many snapshots do you have ?
How much free space do you have on the datastore now ?
You can find out by running df -h command.
To find out the used disk space for the files in the VMs folder, please run ls -lisa which reports the used space (in kB) in the second column.
Please run both commands and post the output a plain text, i.e. not as a screenshot.
André
[root@localhost:/vmfs/volumes/5d28c6d0-12b6a01a-7b3f-6c2b5991eaa5/ServerAD] df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
VMFS-6 3.6T 3.6T 41.4G 99% /vmfs/volumes/datastore1
vfat 249.7M 150.7M 99.0M 60% /vmfs/volumes/0b23f27b-1d89ef9f-809d-be198fbc1324
vfat 4.0G 26.0M 4.0G 1% /vmfs/volumes/5d28c6dd-e02236b6-7b35-6c2b5991eaa5
vfat 285.8M 172.9M 112.9M 60% /vmfs/volumes/5d28c6c7-e334b514-2e17-6c2b5991eaa5
vfat 249.7M 4.0K 249.7M 0% /vmfs/volumes/73b19a7f-4d90b2b0-b289-ba6ebb50f7c1
[root@localhost:/vmfs/volumes/5d28c6d0-12b6a01a-7b3f-6c2b5991eaa5/ServerAD] ls -lisa
total 3643853952
260 128 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81920 May 19 20:54 .
4 1024 drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 73728 Jul 15 2019 ..
109052996 418762752 -rw------- 1 root root 433970135040 May 19 20:54 ServerAD-000001-sesparse.vmdk
113247300 0 -rw------- 1 root root 314 Aug 26 2019 ServerAD-000001.vmdk
247465028 9442304 -rw------- 1 root root 21363023872 May 19 20:05 ServerAD-000002-sesparse.vmdk
251659332 0 -rw------- 1 root root 321 Sep 10 2019 ServerAD-000002.vmdk
264242244 227478528 -rw------- 1 root root 238969696256 May 19 20:49 ServerAD-000003-sesparse.vmdk
268436548 0 -rw------- 1 root root 321 May 19 20:05 ServerAD-000003.vmdk
243270724 26009600 -rw------- 1 root root 26633830400 Sep 10 2019 ServerAD-Snapshot2.vmem
239076420 20480 -rw------- 1 root root 20490789 Sep 10 2019 ServerAD-Snapshot2.vmsn
260047940 26009600 -rw------- 1 root root 26633830400 Sep 10 2019 ServerAD-Snapshot3.vmem
255853636 20480 -rw------- 1 root root 20490789 Sep 10 2019 ServerAD-Snapshot3.vmsn
4195396 2936012800 -rw------- 1 root root 3006477107200 May 22 22:46 ServerAD-flat.vmdk
37749828 1024 -rw------- 1 root root 270840 May 19 20:49 ServerAD.nvram
8389700 0 -rw------- 1 root root 452 May 19 19:26 ServerAD.vmdk
12584004 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 788 May 19 19:26 ServerAD.vmsd
58721348 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3249 May 19 20:49 ServerAD.vmx
213910596 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227651 Aug 26 2019 vmware-10.log
230687812 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414550 Nov 15 2019 vmware-11.log
146801732 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 207672 Aug 16 2019 vmware-6.log
163578948 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209396 Aug 16 2019 vmware-7.log
180356164 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 212131 Aug 19 2019 vmware-8.log
197133380 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308459 Aug 26 2019 vmware-9.log
281019460 1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 486759 May 19 20:49 vmware.log
218104900 88064 -rw------- 1 root root 90177536 Aug 26 2019 vmx-ServerAD-356081836-1.vswp
According to the flat file's time stamp, the snapshot deletion process is still running. With the huge snapshots this may indeed take considerable time.
What you may do is to check the current state/progress from the command line (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2146185).
André
I have tried this. But it not working for me.
[root@localhost:/vmfs/volumes/5d28c6d0-12b6a01a-7b3f-6c2b5991eaa5/ServerAD] vim-cmd vimsvc/task_list
Failed to login: Operation timed out
Is it possible to stop consolidation via ssh?
It may be possible to kill the process, but I can't tell you whether this will harm the VM, so better avoid this if possible.
What you can do is to:
André
> but I can't tell you whether this will harm the VM,
Same here.
Andre - if you ever have the chance to setup a test for such a scenario on real hardware - lets try if we can figure out a way how to kill a consolidation process.
If we find a way how to"pause" a consolidation without doing any harm this would be something we can use quite often.
Ulli
After five days is consolidation complete. 🙂 Uff...
Thank you all for your replies!