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Introduction

When you initiate a Delete or DeleteAll operation on snapshots, the snapshot is immediately deleted, then the backing virtual machine disk .vmdk files are consolidated on-disk. If the consolidation fails [during snapshot deletion], some Virtual Disk files may remain on disk and/or be actively used on the Datastore, consuming storage capacity. (Source: VMware).

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Step-by-step guide - VSS Portal

1. Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca

2. Look for the VM to edit and click theImage Modified button.

3. From the VM action section (bottom), click on CONSOLIDATE
   

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2. Confirm and a consolidation task will be submitted.
   

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Step-by-step guide - VSS CLI

Usinghttps://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install

1. Disk consolidation is treated as a change request and can be scheduled with the --schedule/-s flag. If disk consolidation is required, run vss compute vm set

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1. <name-or-id> consolidate as shown below:

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   vss-cli compute vm set --schedule "2017-09-06 00:00" {

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1. Name-or-Uuid} consolidate

2. Check the state of the request made by running:

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   vss-cli request change ls -s created_on,desc -c 1

Step-by-step guide - VSS Intervention

1. Send an email to vss(at)eis.utoronto.carequesting to consolidate disks

2. Wait for email confirmation

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