a few virtual machine unable to backup .

[henry_wang]

I deployed two VDP server, and one server always can't work normal. so I deleted it. and Redeploy it .

but now I have a trouble that I backup virtual machines , when I backup virtual machine, it always failed.

Error log:  Error Code 10056: Operation failed due to existing snapshot. I check the failed VM snapshot tree ,

no any snapshot in it,  but in VM datastore directory, I found some stranger virtual disk, VMname-000001.vmdk

vmname-000002.vmdk. I think may be those vmdk cause my backup failed. so that I moved it to a temp folder,

but failed.

I want to know how to move it safely, and I make sure the backup issue.

[virtualdive]

Hi Henry,

This command vmware-cmd is obsolete in ESXi now. However this can only be run from vCLI or vMA. By the way which version of ESXi are you running it on?

Thanks,

[vNEX]

you will need to consolidate these snapshots ... for detailed steps follow steps in these KB articles:

VMware KB: Consolidating snapshots in vSphere 5.x if this doesnt help continue with KB below.

VMware KB: Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot Manager