Have you been annoyed like me looking at snapshots getting merged and
the progress in task list pane shows 99% but not doing anything?
I have been... I even raised a ticket with VMware to let me know if its
actually getting merged.
One of the GSS support engineer helped me in getting some visibility of
the snapshot merging.
SSH to one of the host.
Browse to the relevant datastore and into the virtual machine folder
where the vm resides
cd
/vmfs/volumes/<vm folder>
watch -d 'ls -luth |
grep -E "flat|sparse|delta"'
That will help keep monitoring the delta disks getting merged to the
flat files.
vim-cmd
vimsvc/task_list
This command outputs
there is a removeallsnapshot task running.
# vim-cmd
vimsvc/task_info haTask-x-vim.VirtualMachine.removeAllSnapshots-xxxxxxxx
With this output make
sure your actual task is in running state
(vim.TaskInfo)
{
dynamicType
= <unset>,
key
= "haTask-x-vim.VirtualMachine.removeAllSnapshots-xxxxxxxxx",
task
= 'vim.Task:haTask-x-vim.VirtualMachine.removeAllSnapshots-xxxxxxxx',
description
= (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) null,
name
= "vim.VirtualMachine.removeAllSnapshots",
descriptionId = "VirtualMachine.removeAllSnapshots",
à <running
process>
entity
= 'vim.VirtualMachine:9', <---VIM ID>
entityName = "<vm name>", à <Virtual Machine
name>
state = "running", à <make sure
the status is running & is not in a error state>
cancelled
= false,
cancelable
= false,
error
= (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
result
= <unset>,
progress = 99,
à <progress
of task>
reason
= (vim.TaskReasonUser) {
dynamicType
= <unset>,
userName
= "root",
},
queueTime
= "2013-10-02T07:22:02.224526Z",
startTime
= "2013-10-02T07:22:02.225526Z",
completeTime
= <unset>,
eventChainId
= 304060994,
changeTag
= <unset>,
parentTaskKey
= <unset>,
rootTaskKey
= <unset>,
}
In my case the progress was on 99% for a long time
