Troubleshooting issues when creating or committing snapshots in VMware ESXi/ESX
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Troubleshooting issues when creating or committing snapshots in VMware ESXi/ESX

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Article ID: 316392

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Updated On: 05-12-2025

Products

VMware vCenter Server VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article helps in troubleshooting issues when you create or commit snapshots in ESXi/ESX.

You may experience the following:

  • You cannot take a snapshot of the virtual machine.
  • You cannot commit the snapshot of the virtual machine.
  • You cannot delete snapshots off the virtual machine.
  • There are no snapshots visible in Snapshot Manager.
  • You see one or more of these errors:
     
    • Create virtual machine snapshot VIRTUALMACHINE File <unspecified filename> is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore '<unspecified datastore>'
    • The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created.
    • Snapshot guest failed: The file is too big for the filesystem.
    • Failed to lock the file.
    • Failed to do snapshot op: Error: (21) The file is too big for the datastore.
    • Could not power on VM: No space left on device. Failed to power on VM.
    • An unexpected error was received from the ESX host while powering on vm-##.
    • Configuration of host IP address is inconsistent on host <hostname>: address resolved to <IP Address> and <IPAddress>
    • Too many levels of redo logs.
    • Not enough disk space.
    • VMControl error -3: Invalid arguments.
    • Cannot complete the operation because the file or folder [DatastoreName] VMname/VMname.vmx already exists.
    • CID Mismatch.
    • Maximum Iteration reached - 32.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server
VMware vSphere ESXi 

Resolution

 

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