ESXi 5.5.0 Unable to take a snapshot - Detected an invalid snapshot configuration.

[muhamdli302]

Hi there,

when i try to take a snapshot of my File Server i get an error message:

" An error occurred while taking a snapshot: msg.snapshot.error-NOTFOUND.

  An error occurred while saving a snapshot: msg.snapshot.error-NOTFOUND."

Why can't i take a snapshot?

any ideas?

Thanks

[rcporto]

Have you removed any disk from virtual machine before take the snapshot ? Check if helps: VMware KB: Cannot create new snapshots on a virtual machine after removing a disk from the virtual m...

[CamoiAguiar]

Hello

I had this problem using veeam

I removed all orphaned filename-delta-0000x.vmdk files

example:
file-00001.vmdk
file-00001.delta.vmdk
file-00002.vmdk
file-00002.delta.vmdk
file-00003.vmdk
file-00003.delta.vmdk
file-00004.delta.vmdk (REMOVED)
file-00005.delta.vmdk (REMOVED)
file-00006.delta.vmdk (REMOVED)
file-00007.delta.vmdk (REMOVED)

After that I managed to create snapshots again