Canceling snapshot removal process

[Korsain]

Hello everybody

I just wanted to ask is it safe to cancel- delete all snapshot process ? I've made snapshot a while ago and now made mistake of deleting it when VM is still runing , after 6h its 12 %.  I really need to cancel this proces cause i cant have any downtime on that VM. The size of snapshot is 150 Gb , im using ESX 5.5 free

If there is no option to cancel this process ,can I shout down VM now, during that process ?

Thanks

Wojtek

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

>>> I really need to cancel this process cause I cant have any downtime on that VM.

Why - if you can't afford downtime - would you want to cancel the job and/or shut down the VM. Just let it run and finish the job. Depending on the storage speed this may take some time, but snapshot deletion usually works flawlessly.

André

[Korsain]

First, thanks Andre for fast answer,

but this machine need to work perfect tomorrow before 8 am, and now its unfortunately 11pm in my country so now I can wait and hope it will finish before deadline - what i don't belive will happen  or cancel it and start again at weekend with shuting down VM

I know that often 95 % hangs VM for some time , and im afraid with 150Gb snapshot it can be a lot of time :smileysad:

I also forgot to mention , there are 2 more snapshots - 23 Gb and 20 Gb

Anyway, even if i wont cancel it , I would really like to know if its possible to cancel it without destroying VM , i dont have any backups

Wojtek

[a_p_]

To be honest, I never tried to cancel a snapshot deletion. However, I would expect that the job would finish to consolidate/merge the current snapshot file to be in a consistent state. If this is the case, canceling wouldn't help you much.

I don't know what type of storage you are using, but with the 6 hours that the job is already running and about 9 hours to go, the required throughput is less than 3MB/sec. which each storage system should easily be able to do. It certainly also depends on other tasks which are running on the host. What you can do is to take a look at the performance tab to see the data rate.

On the other side, doe the VM perform poorly with the snapshot deletion currently running?

André

PS: "I don't have any backups" <-- That's definitely a reason to let it run and finish the job, and it's also a reason to think about backups!!!