consolidate disk in vcloud

[stan12345]

Hi -  in vcloud 5.1, I'm looking to consolidate a VM in a vapp. If I consolidate a VM, does it affect prior VMs and vapps ? For example, is Vapp A is saved as Catalog A, and then cloned as Vapp B. If I consolidate the vms of Vapp B, does this affect Vapp A or Catalog A? Can Vapp A have running VMs while I do this consolidate? I don't know if there is an issue there if they are sharing disks.

[cfor]

The consolidate operation only modifies the current VM.  What is does is reads all the partial disks (linked clone disks) and makes a new disk with all the data.  If other VM's are linked or in catalogs downstream they do not change.

[stan12345]

ok thanks cfor, so just wanted to confirm, I can have vapps that use this same base disk running at the same time as the consolidation.

[cfor · Accepted solution]

Yes.  As long as your storage can handle the read/write load increase all should be good.  (Very rare this is an issue)