snapshot has already been deleted or has not been completely created

[shlitops]

I have ESXI 7.0.2 we want to delete a snapshaot and waited for 10 hours and the task I believe is hanging . When I carry out again the delete snapshat it is saying " Another task is already in progress" ,

I search around to get ideas , I am afraid to reboot the ESXI box  maybe the host won't come online

Here are information I gathered and no idea what to do next

#vim-cmd vimsvc/task_info 'vim.Task:haTask-7-vim.VirtualMachine.removeAllSnapshots-
3610494794'
(vmodl.fault.ManagedObjectNotFound) {
faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
faultMessage = <unset>,
obj = 'vim.Task:vim.Task:haTask-7-vim.VirtualMachine.removeAllSnapshots-3610494794'
msg = "Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:00000082ecc6a5f0, TCP:localhost:8307>]: GetInfo
The object 'vim.Task:vim.Task:haTask-7-vim.VirtualMachine.removeAllSnapshots-3610494794' has already been deleted or has not been completely created"
}

[ptarnawski]

Hey @shlitops , 

Depending on the snapshot size and number of IOPS, the deletion process can take several hours. I had a machine with high IOPS, and the snapshot deletion took over 10 hours. The process is not hanging. The process is trying to catch Delta to consolidate disks.