Recent Tasks displays "Taking virtual machine screenshot " followed by "Delete File"

[jocoll75]

In the past couple of days, I've noticed some Recent Tasks in vCenter when I log on to my vCloud director web portal. After logging in and selecting My Cloud, a bunch of Recent Task appear stating "Taking virtual machine screenshot " followed by "delete file" I don't know what could be causing these tasks to start. According to "Details about the task in vCenter Server: Take virtual machine screenshot (2001467)" KB,  I've checked my vmware.log file to see if there are any corruptions to the vm's and did not see any issues. I've restarted the services on the cells and restarted the cells themselves, which did not resolve the issue. I do have a service request in with vmware, they have asked me to restart the management agents on the host. Being that I can not restart them until after business hours, I'm hoping to find some other options until I can restart the management service on the esxi hosts. I'm currently on vCloud director 5.5 and vCenter server 5.1.

[jocoll75 · Accepted solution]

After discussing this with vmware tech support, it turns out that, the screenshots are a part of the vSphere upgrade. There is a way to filter it out, once I have the instructions on how to filter these alerts, I'll post it here.

[brianoc]

Hi jocoll75,

Did you get any further with filtering these out?

Thanks!

[Sathish_1121]

Hi,

Any new progress in this effort. This is happening in my infrastructure as well. Is this an occurrence after a specific vSphere upgrade and harmless to ignore?

Thanks.