How to monitor long running snapshot deletions

Author: NetworkAdminKB.com

Created: 2010-01-20

Modified: 2011-11-06

 

Issue:

When you delete (commit) a snapshot in vCenter, the associated task that shows in the vCenter Client will timeout after only 15mins.  Giving the appearance there was a failure.

 

Cause:

This is an internal setting caused by the vCenter Client and does not affect the actual running tasks.

 

Solution:

To follow the progress of the snapshot deletion, log into to the service console using SSH and navigate to the folder where the .vmdk files are located.  Then run the following command:

 

watch "ls -oghut --full-time *.vmdk"

 

You can now monitor when the snapshot (-delta.vmdk) files are removed

Article ID: 444, Created On: 11/6/2011, Modified: 11/6/2011