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Clean Out Corrupted Snapshot

I have a snapshot that the SAN is saying is corrupted. I'm trying to delete it, but no go. I used "delete all" from within the VI client, to no avail. I tried to then consolidate the snapshot, but it failed because of file corruption. I don't care to save the data, I just want the corrupted file gone.

 

/vmfs/volumes/dd362778-b976554f/ICS LibreNMS # vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.get 24
Get Snapshot:
/vmfs/volumes/dd362778-b976554f/ICS LibreNMS # vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.removeall 24
Remove All Snapshots:
/vmfs/volumes/dd362778-b976554f/ICS LibreNMS # ls -ah
.                               ICS LibreNMS-000001.vmdk        ICS LibreNMS.nvram              ICS LibreNMS.vmx                vmware-2.log
..                              ICS LibreNMS-aux.xml            ICS LibreNMS.vmdk               ICS LibreNMS.vmxf               vmware.log
ICS LibreNMS-000001-delta.vmdk  ICS LibreNMS-flat.vmdk          ICS LibreNMS.vmsd               vmware-1.log
/vmfs/volumes/dd362778-b976554f/ICS LibreNMS # ls -hal
total 51662828
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          14 May 31 03:47 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          73 May 30 23:57 ..
-rw-------    1 root     root       94.4G Jun  4 16:16 ICS LibreNMS-000001-delta.vmdk
-rw-------    1 root     root         328 May 10 04:44 ICS LibreNMS-000001.vmdk
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          13 May 31 01:59 ICS LibreNMS-aux.xml
-rw-------    1 root     root      128.0G May 31 03:47 ICS LibreNMS-flat.vmdk
-rw-------    1 root     root        8.5K May 30 21:45 ICS LibreNMS.nvram
-rw-------    1 root     root         557 May 31 02:00 ICS LibreNMS.vmdk
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          77 May 31 00:09 ICS LibreNMS.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        2.8K May 30 21:45 ICS LibreNMS.vmx
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         370 Apr  4  2020 ICS LibreNMS.vmxf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      531.4K Jan 25 09:57 vmware-1.log
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      377.1K May  9 06:07 vmware-2.log
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      185.7K May 30 21:45 vmware.log
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Which vmdk is configured in the vmx ?
If it is

LibreNMS.vmdk

and losing 94 gb of data is ok then delete

-rw-------    1 root     root       94.4G Jun  4 16:16 ICS LibreNMS-000001-delta.vmdk
-rw-------    1 root     root         328 May 10 04:44 ICS LibreNMS-000001.vmdk
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          77 May 31 00:09 ICS LibreNMS.vmsd


Dont do this if LibreNMS.vmdk or LibreNMS-flat.vmdk is the corrupted file.

 


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