Troubleshooting issues when creating or committing snapshots in VMware ESXi/ESX
Article ID: 316392
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Products
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
These KB's are helpful in Troubleshooting Snapshot related issues.
- Create a quiesced snapshot because the snapshot operation exceeded the time limit for holding off I/O in the frozen virtual machine
- Creating a quiesced snapshot of a Windows virtual machine generates Event IDs 50, 57, 137, 140, 157, or 12289
- “msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCING-ERROR” in vCenter Server (2069952)
- Unable to delete the virtual machine snapshots (2017072)
- Committing snapshots when there are no snapshot entries in the Snapshot Manager (1002310)
- Snapshot removal task stops at 99% in ESXi/ESX (1007566)
- Creating a snapshot for an ESXi/ESX virtual machine fails with the error: File is larger than maximum file size supported (1012384)
- Committing Snapshots through Command line Interface (1026380)
- Snapshot quiescing fails on Linux guests after upgrading to ESXi and VMware Tools 5.1 and 5.5 (2038606)
- Cannot create new snapshots on a virtual machine after removing a disk from the virtual machine (1005336)
- Snapshot quiescing fails in Linux guests when disk.enableUUID is set to true in the vmx file (2079220)
Additional Information
- For more information, see Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware environment.
- Reverting a snapshot fails with a permission denied error
- Investigating disk space on an ESX or ESXi host
- Collecting diagnostic information in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure Environment
- Investigating an out of resources error on a datastore
- Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi
- Committing snapshots from within the Service Console
- "The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created" error
- Unable to create snapshot: Operation failed because file already exists or Cannot complete the operation because the file or folder [DatastoreName]
- VMname/VMname.vmx already exists
- Unable to commit virtual machine snapshots because another task is in progress
- Creating a snapshot for an ESXi/ESX virtual machine fails with the error: File is larger than maximum file size supported
- Snapshot Manager fails to detect snapshots of VMs
- VMware ESXi/ESX でスナップショットの作成またはコミット時に発生する問題のトラブルシューティング
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