{"id":65,"date":"2016-03-03T10:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/?p=65"},"modified":"2016-03-03T10:26:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:26:42","slug":"an-error-occurred-while-consolidating-disks-msg-snapshot-error-failed-the-maximum-consolidate-retries-was-exceeded-for-scsi00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/2016\/03\/03\/an-error-occurred-while-consolidating-disks-msg-snapshot-error-failed-the-maximum-consolidate-retries-was-exceeded-for-scsi00\/","title":{"rendered":"An error occurred while consolidating disks: msg.snapshot.error-FAILED. The maximum consolidate retries was exceeded for scsi0:0."},"content":{"rendered":"To set the parameter snapshot.asyncConsolidate.forceSync to TRUE using the vSphere client:\r\n1. Shut down the virtual machine.\r\n2. Right-click the virtual machine and click Edit settings.\r\n3. Click the Options tab.\r\n4. Under Advanced, right-click General\r\n5. Click Configuration Parameters, then click Add Row.\r\n6. In the left pane, add this parameter:\r\n\r\n<code><em>snapshot.asyncConsolidate.forceSync<\/em><\/code>\r\n\r\n7. In\u00a0the right\u00a0pane, add this value:\r\n\r\n<code><em>TRUE<\/em><\/code>\r\n\r\n8. Click <b>OK<\/b> to save your change, and power on the virtual machine.\r\n\r\n<strong>OR<\/strong>\r\n\r\nthis Powercli command:\r\n\r\n<code>get-vm virtual_machine_name | New-AdvancedSetting -Name snapshot.asyncConsolidate.forceSync -Value TRUE -Confirm:$False<\/code>\r\n\r\nTaken from\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=2082886\">https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=2082886<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To set the parameter snapshot.asyncConsolidate.forceSync to TRUE using the vSphere client: 1. Shut down the virtual machine. 2. Right-click the virtual machine and click Edit settings. 3. Click the Options tab. 4. Under Advanced, right-click General 5. Click Configuration Parameters, then click Add Row. 6. In the left pane, add this parameter: snapshot.asyncConsolidate.forceSync 7. In\u00a0the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powercli","category-vmware","tag-powercli","tag-snapshots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelamberts.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}