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Vmware Snapshot not deleted using SMVI

mickehoe123 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:19:55 GMT

Hi people,

I have a customer with an avrage size SMVI deployment. They are running the latest version of SMVI but still on VI3.5

The have 2 VM's that are giving trouble. The VMware Snapshots are failing to delete after SMVI job completes.

The unique thing about these VM's is that they have 4cpu's and 9Gig of ram assigned to them.... I feel this is the issue but any advice would be welcomed.

Thanks and regards

Michael Kehoe

Re: Vmware Snapshot not deleted using SMVI

mickehoe123 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:02:58 GMT

Problem solved.......

The ESX default timeout of 15mins was being reached with the 2 VM's that have 9gig of ram..... I have seperated these VM's into different DataStores and all is well....

Thanks for all your help...

Re: Vmware Snapshot not deleted using SMVI

ALVSERVERSUPPORTTEAM — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:10:32 GMT

Do you know where this default timeout is set?

Re: Vmware Snapshot not deleted using SMVI

amritad — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:17:42 GMT

You could check here

https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb41511

It’s published as kb41511 and you’ll need a free NetApp NOW account to access the document.

Regards

Amrita

Re: Vmware Snapshot not deleted using SMVI

amritad — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:15:55 GMT

We also have a toll to clean up old VMware snapshots. Details are available here:

http://communities.netapp.com/thread/7047

Regards

Amrita