Several unused sesparse files in VM folder, VM won´t snapshot

[Bjornf]

Hello.

We have Veeam Backup and replication taking daily backups of our environment,

Last night, as it seems from the Veeam logs, the datastore ran out of space while a snapshot for one VM with 4 disks  was being created.

Problem arose on second disk, it seems it retried the process 4 times with the same result.
The space issue is reolved but the VM now sits with 4 different "sesparse"-vmdks for one of the VM:s disks.

There are no Snapshots listed and the consolidate option is grayed out.
If i check settings, The VM runs on base disks, and no disks have independent mode listed.

The VM will not snapshot, following errors occour:

-An error occurred while taking a snapshot: A required file was not found.An error occurred while saving snapshot file -"/vmfs/volumes/59d66cdd-74a6a994-f5c8-405cfdeefb41/[vm_name]/[vm_name]Snapshot2781.vmsn".An error occurred while saving -the snapshot: A required file was not found.

Are te sesparse disks being used at all in this scenario?
Can they be deleted?

Any ideas would be greaty appriciated.

Best Regards
Bj

[a_p_]

Hard to say without any details. If the issue is still present, then please run ls -lisa > filelist.txt in the VM's folder, and attach the filelist.txt as well as the VM's .vmx file (compressed as a .zip archive) to your next reply.

André