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hugop
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Snapshot misery: commit failed due to no storage space...

Hi there,

I have a VM that had a snapshot taken by the secret squirrel "Consolidate Helper" thing! Upon deleting the snapshot (commit changes to disk) it failed and crashed the VM.

So when I try to power on the VM, it hangs at 95% for 15 minutes and then gives a timed out message.

I looks as though editing the VM and attaching the orignal .vmdk files fixes the problem BUT the data is out of date, this is due to the VM using the original .vmdk files and not the delta files.

My question is: how do I commit the delta files

(there is more than one so I can't do this "vmkfstools -i xxxx-nnnn.vmdk newdisk.vmdk")[/code] to the original .vmdk file?

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davidbarclay
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there is more than one so I can't do this "vmkfstools -i xxxx-nnnn.vmdk

newdisk.vmdk")

From memory you can, just be sure you use the last snapshot's vmdk. i.e. where nnnn is the highest number.

Dave