Hi
We are running an old esxi 6.0 and unfortuantely something has tricked us
We now have a VM running on a snapshot with the number 256
In the vmware log, it opens all the snapshots and tries to boot, but it now has been running for over an hour and has not completed the boot yet
2022-04-12T07:36:44.887Z| Worker#1| I120: DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/4fe079f5-ab353d1f-3b4b-e41f13eb4db2/DDB/DDB-000256.vmdk' (0xa): vmfsSparse, 251658240 sectors / 120 GB.
2022-04-12T07:36:44.891Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Initializing ESX kernel change tracking for fid 532625.
2022-04-12T07:36:44.891Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Successfuly created cbt node 82091-cbt.
2022-04-12T07:36:44.891Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-CBT : Opening cbt node /vmfs/devices/cbt/82091-cbt
2022-04-12T07:36:44.891Z| vmx| I120: DISKLIB-LIB : Opened "/vmfs/volumes/4fe079f5-ab353d1f-3b4b-e41f13eb4db2/DDB/DDB_1.vmdk" (flags 0xa, type vmfs).
2022-04-12T07:36:44.892Z| vmx| I120: DISK: Disk '/vmfs/volumes/4fe079f5-ab353d1f-3b4b-e41f13eb4db2/DDB/DDB_1.vmdk' has UUID '60 00 c2 96 38 74 9e ce-15 ac c9 2d ab f4 f1 27'
2022-04-12T07:36:44.892Z| vmx| I120: DISK: OPEN '/vmfs/volumes/4fe079f5-ab353d1f-3b4b-e41f13eb4db2/DDB/DDB_1.vmdk' Geo (13054/255/63) BIOS Geo (0/0/0)
2022-04-12T07:36:44.892Z| vmx| I120: UTIL: Change file descriptor limit from soft 4096,hard 4096 to soft 4211,hard 4211.
2022-04-12T07:36:44.925Z| Worker#1| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/4fe079f5-ab353d1f-3b4b-e41f13eb4db2/DDB/DDB-000255-delta.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 302239744, hd = 598165. Type 8
2022-04-12T07:36:44.925Z| Worker#1| I120: DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "DDB-000255-delta.vmdk" (0xe)
2022-04-12T07:36:44.925Z| Worker#1| I120: DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/4fe079f5-ab353d1f-3b4b-e41f13eb4db2/DDB/DDB-000255.vmdk' (0xe): vmfsSparse, 251658240 sectors / 120 GB.
2022-04-12T07:36:44.941Z| Worker#1| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/4fe079f5-ab353d1f-3b4b-e41f13eb4db2/DDB/DDB-000254-delta.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 1510199296, hd = 663702. Type 8
2022-04-12T07:36:44.941Z| Worker#1| I120: DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "DDB-000254-delta.vmdk" (0xe)
2022-04-12T07:36:44.941Z| Worker#1| I120: DISKLIB-LINK : Opened '/vmfs/volumes/4fe079f5-ab353d1f-3b4b-e41f13eb4db2/DDB/DDB-000254.vmdk' (0xe): vmfsSparse, 251658240 sectors / 120 GB.
2022-04-12T07:36:44.951Z| Worker#1| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS : "/vmfs/volumes/4fe079f5-ab353d1f-3b4b-e41f13eb4db2/DDB/DDB-000253-delta.vmdk" : open successful (14) size = 17027072, hd = 663703. Type 8
2022-04-12T07:36:44.951Z| Worker#1| I120: DISKLIB-DSCPTR: Opened [0]: "DDB-000253-delta.vmdk" (0xe)
..... and so on....
Is there any way I can consolidate that many snapshots?
They are not visible in the snapshot manager
Can something be done via SSH?
The backup is not even complete so we can not restore from it
Thanks