Too many levels of redo logs

[jrico82]

I am in a hurry. I am receiveing a message from a VM on ESX 3.5 when I try to power it on. I says, that the virtual machine could not be powered on because in could not open an *.vmdk file or ona of the snapshots it depends on. REASON, TOO MANY LEVELS OF REDO LOGS. I am very worried aboout it.... Does somebody could help, please ... ????

[java_cat33]

Does the vmdk exist?

You could try doing an offline clone of the VM - this will remove the snapshots in the process - end result would be an identical VM with no snapshots.

However - firstly need to check if the vmdk exists.....

[jrico82]

A have already tried that. And it says that it could not find the 00035.vmdk and It EXISTs.

Regards.

[jrico82]

A have already tried that. And it says that it could not find the 00035.vmdk and It EXISTs.

Regards.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Check the permissions on the snapshot file, as well as its size. Remember you really do not want to use many snapshots. They slow down disk writes immensely and could cause loss of network connectivity.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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