VM showing "Virtual machine Consolidation Needed" in vSphere Client
Applies to
- VMWare vSphere
- NetApp NFS Plugin for VMware VAAI
- NetApp SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere (SCV)
- Virtual Machine (VM)
- Any application or manual intervention that would clone VM's or consolidate snapshots
Issue
- After a VM clone or snapshot consolidation action, the VM Summary shows:
Virtual machine Consolidation Needed status
Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed
- When you run the Snapshot Consolidation on the affected host, the action completes successfully, but the Virtual machine Consolidation Needed status remains
- The
vmware.log
in vCenter from the affected VM shows:
Er(02) vmx lb40gz4s-137866-auto-2ydn-h5:70053515-9e-eb-0065 ConsolidateFillSnapDiskTransferArray: Failed to fetch disk size of '/<Disk_Path>.vmdk' for consolidate: Unknown error (5)
In(05) vmx lb40gz4s-137866-auto-2ydn-h5:70053515-9e-eb-0065 ConsolidateStart: Failure while populating the snapDataPerCombineOperation array: 'Unknown error' (5)
In(05) vmx lb40gz4s-137866-auto-2ydn-h5:70053515-9e-eb-0065 ConsolidateEnd: Snapshot consolidate complete: Unknown error (5).