Unable to consolidate virtual machine disk

[josue549]

Hi all,

We have register a VM on vCenter and unfortunately, it seems that the disk consolidation is needed.

But unfortunately, when we run the consolidation, we are getting this error message :

An error occurred while consolidating disks: msg.disklib.FILENOPERMISSION.

We tried to stop the VM but unfortunately no luck still the same error message.

Did anyone already face this issue ?

Thanks

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

Instead of registering the vm, a solution could be to import it with the Vcenter Converter on the Esxi.

ARomeo

[josue549]

Hello Alessandro,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm wondering, why should I use the vcenter converter ? The vm was already running on the vcenter long time ago.

Nothing has changed, samce vcenter, same version, same vm.

Thanks.

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

because it automatically resolves any errors on the disk.

ARomeo

[a_p_]

Do you have a VM (HotAdd) based backup running? Please check whether it didn't complete, and still has access to the VM's virtual disks.

André

[josue549]

Hello,

We finally found the issue, since we are using some network tool for backup, while reverting the snapshot, some ID on the vmdk were still referring to the backup folder, here is an example :

[root@esxihost:/vmfs/volumes/a59a2c87-xxxxxxxx/myvirtualmachine-restored] cat myvirtualmachine-000002.vmdk
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
encoding="UTF-8"
CID=xxxxxxx
parentCID=8xxxxxxx
isNativeSnapshot="no"
createType="vmfsSparse"
parentFileNameHint="/vmfs/volumes/a59a2c87-xxxxxxxx/.snapshot/daily.2019-09-24_0010/myvirtualmachine/myvirtualmachine.vmdk"
# Extent description
RW xxxxxxxxxx VMFSSPARSE "myvirtualmachine-000002-delta.vmdk"
# The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.longContentID = "1281b2ca1xxxxxxxxxxxxx1cbc90"
ddb.toolsVersion = "1xxxx9"

So by removing ".snapshot/daily.2019-09-24" we were finally able to consolidate the machine.

Thanks for all of your suggestion.

Josué