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@ksujay wrote:

This is not any ESXi bug. The snapshot file continues to grow in size when it is retained for a longer period. This can cause the snapshot storage location to run out of space and impact the system performance. Do not use a single snapshot for more than 72 hours is what as recommended (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1025279)

Are you getting the consolidate option in snapshot manager? If yes, any error messages in the consolidate process?

Also please share the output for (grep vmdk *.vmx) from the VM folder.

 

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I am getting notice to start consolidate process, but when it starts it says not enough space to complete.

Here are output of the grep command:

[root@thinkserver:/vmfs/volumes/5c73314d-b5809724-22f9-000423cb2c48/Ubuntu (1)] grep vmdk *.vmx
scsi0:0.fileName = "Ubuntu (1)-000010.vmdk"
[root@thinkserver:/vmfs/volumes/5c73314d-b5809724-22f9-000423cb2c48/Ubuntu (1)]