Guys,
I'm having a problem to delete a snapshot from vSphere console. I'm running with vSphere v5.1.
I had tried to recreate the snapshot and perform full deletion and its appears the same. I also restarted the Management Agents on the ESXi host where the VM was parked. But the problem still remain the same. Any thought and helpful that might be help to resolve this issue for me?
My backup keep failing because the snapshot unable to remove from the host.
Remove all snapshots
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Unable to access file <unspecified filename> since it is locked
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7/7/2014 8:41:04 AM
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VMware KB: Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host
From the above, this is the impact:
Caution: Restarting the management agents may impact any tasks that may be running on the ESXi/ESX host at the time of the restart.
See if this KB article helps: VMware KB: Unable to delete the virtual machine snapshot due to locked files
I have refer to the articles earlier. But I need to know what is the impact once I'm restarting the service on the ESX via SSH. Since the host holding most critical servers inside my environment.
Which service is it?
This service.
VMware KB: Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host
From the above, this is the impact:
Caution: Restarting the management agents may impact any tasks that may be running on the ESXi/ESX host at the time of the restart.
can you provide me some example for the task? is it like vmotion or HA services?
In vSphere Client, you can go to Tasks and Events tab of an ESXi host and it will shot you the tasks. It can be a vMotion activity, VM snapshot creation, power on or power off operation of VM, etc.