Sure; once you've fired up PowerCLI you'll need to connect to vCenter: Connect-VIServer -server VCENTER_NAME_HERE
Now get the list of snapshots for the VM: Get-Snapshot -VM VM_NAME_HERE DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 4:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare snapshot issue Can you tell me the commands off-hand? I'm fairly new to VMWare and am still learning. From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare snapshot issue But that doesn't answer my question. You can't delete the snapshots by browsing the datastore, but you can delete them via PowerCLI. This would allow you to delete the snapshots one or two at a time to try and workaround the issue since consolidate fails. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare snapshot issue I see them when I browse the datastore. From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare snapshot issue Do you see the snapshots from PowerCLI? DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare snapshot issue They don't appear in snapshot manager. But I can select the consolidate option. After an hour or so is when I get the input/output error. From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare snapshot issue Have you started at the oldest snapshot and deleted (rather than consolidate)? To delete each snapshot may take some time - perhaps hours! From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare snapshot issue Hi Folks, VMWare question for you VMWare gurus: I'm running ESX 5.0, vShpere client 5.0. I have one server that has many snapshots. It is probably because BackupExec wasn't able to delete the snaphot properly after the vm backup. This is only an issue on this server. When I browse the datastore --> server name, I see at least 10 snapshots. I've tried to consolidate the snapshots via the client, but each time I get an i/o error. Suggestions or is this a call to support? 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