In vSphere 5 there is new command accessible through a click. From vSphere client, when we initiating Delete or Delete All operations on snapshot, the snapshot are deleted from Snapshot Manager, then the snapshot files are consolidated and merged to another snapshot file or to the parent disk of virtual machine. If fails, there were no snapshots shown in the Snapshot Manager, but the snapshot files were still being used on the datastore and this can cause the datastore run out of space. with vSphere 5, we can just right click virtual machine > Snapshot > Consolidate. But of course we need to know which virtual machine that we need to consolidate. Here are complete step:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2003638
Note: the ESXi host that the virtual machine is registered on must be and ESXi 5 host.
p/s: Now on vSphere 5, we can SvMotion virtual machines with snapshots.
kouji@2012
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