Troubleshooting issues when creating or committing snapshots in VMware ESXi/ESX
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VMware vCenter Server
VMware vSphere ESXi
Issue/Introduction
This article helps in troubleshooting issues when you create or commit snapshots in ESXi/ESX.
Symptoms:
- 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.
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Resolution
- Cannot create a quiesced snapshot because the snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen virtual machine
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=1018194 - Creating a quiesced snapshot of a Windows virtual machine generates Event IDs 50, 57, 137, 140, 157, or 12289
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=2006849 - “msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCING-ERROR” in vCenter Server
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=2069952 - Failed to lock the file or One or more disks are busy deleting VM snapshots
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=2017072 - Snapshot quiescing fails on Linux guests after upgrading to VMware vSphere ESXi and VMware Tools 5.1 and 5.5
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=2038606 - Consolidating/Committing snapshots in VMware ESXi
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=1002310 - Snapshot removal task stops at 99%
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=1007566 - Creating a snapshot for an ESXi/ESX virtual machine fails with the error: File is larger than maximum file size supported
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=1012384 - Cannot create new snapshots on a virtual machine after removing a disk from the virtual machine
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=1005336 - Quiescing failure on Linux VM with disk.enableUUID set to true
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=2079220
Additional Information
- Best practices for using VMware snapshots in the vSphere environment
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=1025279 - Investigating disk space on an ESX or ESXi host
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=1003564 - Collecting diagnostic information in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure Environment https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=1003689
- Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi hosts
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=10051 - "The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created" error
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=1007969 - Creating a snapshot for an ESXi/ESX virtual machine fails with the error: File is larger than maximum file size supported
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=1012384
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