

Note: Since this issue happen in my vCenter DB and vCenter was down, I had to connect with vSphere Client to the ESXi host directly where this VM was allocated ( if this issue is in any of your vCenter VMs, you should check which ESXi host is the VMS using, before power off the vCenter).īrowsing the Datastore where the VM is located and in the VM folder, I found 18 Snapshots files and 18 ctk vmdk files. With this message, this issue needs further troubleshooting. When trying to consolidate (with VM power down) the disks, I get: “An error occurred while consolidating disks: -DISKLOCKED”. Sometimes is needed to power off the VM so that all vmdk locks are free and VM can consolidate all snapshots. All we need to do is click in the VM and the “Snapshot – Consolidate” option we can fix this issue. Today one of our vCenter DB VMs we had a warning with the following message: “Virtual Disk Consolidation is required.” This is normal in a VMware farm and happens sometimes (this could be caused by too many snapshot, very old snapshots or snapshot that were not properly removed).
