Cannot Create a Virtual Machine Snapshot during the deletion of a Virtual machine snapshot

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

During the deletion of a virtual machine snapshot, the "Snapshots > Take Snapshot" menu option in the vSphere Client UI's right-click menu will be grayed out and cannot be used.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server

Resolution

This is the expected behavior. Create a new snapshot after the snapshot deletion task for the virtual machine has completed.

Additional Information

Snapshot removal stops a virtual machine for long time