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Unable to remove Consolidated Helper Snapshot under ESX and ESXi

Posted on February 24th, 2009 by admin

If you are running ESX or ESXi U2 or above and have an application that creates VMware backups using snapshots (e.g Vizioncore , Veeam ) you may notice sometimes you are left with a snapshot called Consolidated Helper Snapshot followed by a number.
If you try to remove the snapshot on a powered on VM it [...]

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ESX snapshot “An Invalid snapshot configuration was detected”

Posted on January 6th, 2009 by admin

Received this error today trying to create a new snapshot of a Windows VM guest running on VMware ESXi. VI client showed no existing snapshots, tried reboot of VM and ESXi host but still unable to create a new snapshot.
Was eventually able to create the snapshot by renaming the snapshot definition file for the [...]

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