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Tim Bennett
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Jun 2, 2008 1:45 PM

Trouble Removing Snapshot


I recently attempted expanded the disk size on a two virtual desktops running windows xp. One of these desktops gave me no trouble, the other will not start, each time giving me an error about changes being made to the parent disk since the last time the child disk connected. Which seems to me that I didn't remove the snapshot before I started the other steps to expanding the disk and partition. But... I did remove the snapshot. I created back ups of the everything before I started so I have tried this 3 times with the same result each time. From the Server Console when I check the snapshots it shows the "remove snapshots" option grayed out, so I move forward, once I expand the disk with the vdiskmanager and start desktop I get the error.

your input is greatly appreciated.

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Tim Bennett
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1. Jun 3, 2008 1:54 PM in response to: Tim Bennett
Re: Trouble Removing Snapshot

no one?
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kinsden
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2. Jun 6, 2008 1:46 AM in response to: Tim Bennett
Re: Trouble Removing Snapshot

Tim,

Did you try restoring the virtual machine from your backup set and then expanding the disk (making sure you remove snapshots before you expand)?

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Tim Bennett
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3. Jun 6, 2008 5:49 AM in response to: kinsden
Re: Trouble Removing Snapshot
kinsden,

Yea, I have tried a couple of times now with no success. If I'm understanding this correctly the file named *****000001.vmdk is the snapshot file and it should be gone once you delete the snapshot and the files are committed to the original vmdk file. But I still have the *****000001.vmdk in my directory but the option to remove snapshot is grayed out.

Thanks

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kinsden
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4. Jun 6, 2008 6:18 AM in response to: Tim Bennett
Re: Trouble Removing Snapshot

The *****000001.vmdk is actually the pointer file to snapshot file which would be ******000001-delta.vmdk*

Have you got any -delta files?

I would also suggest deleting ALL the *****000001.vmdk files and retry? Let me know how it goes or if you have got another solution :)

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Tim Bennett
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5. Jun 6, 2008 6:40 AM in response to: kinsden
Re: Trouble Removing Snapshot
kinsden

I don't have any delta files. I'm waiting for VMWare server to be installed on my test server so I can work on this some more. I can't really do much on the working server due to disk space limitations. When I have a test environment in place on Monday I'll try this out.

Thanks for your help.

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kinsden
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6. Jun 6, 2008 7:20 AM in response to: Tim Bennett
Re: Trouble Removing Snapshot
Okydok..all the best..but I still believe if you delete those 000001 vmdk files, it may work. anyway, will await your reply!!
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Tim Bennett
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7. Jun 19, 2008 12:06 PM in response to: kinsden
Re: Trouble Removing Snapshot
I have remedied the problem. I had to repair the disk several times using checkdisk, then was able to create a new snapshot. When I removed the new snapshot the old snapshot was also removed at the same time and then I was able to expand my drive and partition.

Thanks for your input.

Tim

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