topic vCenter Can't snapshot a powered on VM in VMware vCenter™ Discussions https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/vCenter-Can-t-snapshot-a-powered-on-VM/m-p/497600#M7408 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello, </P><P>When I snapshot my VM it give me the following error </P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="snapshot problem.PNG"><img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13397i9317159DC672B1F9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="snapshot problem.PNG" alt="snapshot problem.PNG" /></span></P><P></P><P>I have issued these command to see what is locked by which service, and I got nothing </P><P></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="lockedfiles.PNG"><img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13405i18223433A5976719/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="lockedfiles.PNG" alt="lockedfiles.PNG" /></span></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 25 Aug 2019 20:41:09 GMT SrVMwarer 2019-08-25T20:41:09Z vCenter Can't snapshot a powered on VM https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/vCenter-Can-t-snapshot-a-powered-on-VM/m-p/497600#M7408 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello, </P><P>When I snapshot my VM it give me the following error </P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="snapshot problem.PNG"><img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13397i9317159DC672B1F9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="snapshot problem.PNG" alt="snapshot problem.PNG" /></span></P><P></P><P>I have issued these command to see what is locked by which service, and I got nothing </P><P></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="lockedfiles.PNG"><img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/13405i18223433A5976719/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="lockedfiles.PNG" alt="lockedfiles.PNG" /></span></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 25 Aug 2019 20:41:09 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/vCenter-Can-t-snapshot-a-powered-on-VM/m-p/497600#M7408 SrVMwarer 2019-08-25T20:41:09Z Re: vCenter Can't snapshot a powered on VM https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/vCenter-Can-t-snapshot-a-powered-on-VM/m-p/497601#M7409 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have created another snapshot but used a string to name it, and it worked but in general if I tried giving it a name and it didn't work which log file I can check so I can solve my problem? </P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 25 Aug 2019 20:41:28 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/vCenter-Can-t-snapshot-a-powered-on-VM/m-p/497601#M7409 SrVMwarer 2019-08-25T20:41:28Z Re: vCenter Can't snapshot a powered on VM https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/vCenter-Can-t-snapshot-a-powered-on-VM/m-p/497602#M7410 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P><A href="https://vmdamentals.com/?p=3677" title="https://vmdamentals.com/?p=3677">https://vmdamentals.com/?p=3677</A> </P><P></P><P>Best regards,</P><P>Alessandro Romeo</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 27 Aug 2019 09:36:45 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vCenter-Discussions/vCenter-Can-t-snapshot-a-powered-on-VM/m-p/497602#M7410 Alex_Romeo 2019-08-27T09:36:45Z