Error while trying to consolidate virtual machine's

[gil_t]

hi.

i'm getting this error when trying to consolidate a virtual machine.

what does it mean? how can i resolve this?

[admin]

Is the VM is powered on or powered off? Do you have access to the host via ssh? Are you facing this issue migrating to a different host?

[gil_t]

the vm is power off, i have SSH access to the host and get the same error after migrating to a different host/datastore

[bugblatterbeast]

what does an ls -alh show for that that VM folder location?  Do you see lots of delta files?

[continuum]

Looks like your vmsd-file is invalid and so ESXi does not know that the name it would like to use for the helper snapshot is already used.

If you have the free space available use vmkfstools -i to consolidate - make sure to use a  new name for the output vmdk - or better create a new dir and write the output.vmdk into the new dir.

If vmkfstools -i complains - we need the vmsd-file and a listing of the files in the VM directory - do NOT send a screenshot of datastorebrowser please