
Now run the Snapshot consolidation and it will complete without any issue. Once disks are unlinked from the backup server / backup proxy VM then you need to run Snapshot consolidation on affected and this time it will consolidate all snapshots to base disk and complete without any issue.Ģ.In this method Storage vMotion the affected VM to another datastore (Right click on VM => Migrate => now you need choose migrate disks to another available datastore – this will clear lock on disk files of the virtual machine. Go to the VM settings of your backup Virtual server VM and check for the attached disks (check the same on backup proxy VMs also), you would find some extra disks there (affected VMs disks), now you need to unlink your vmdk files from his virtual machine ( Do Not Delete the Disks, Only remove them from this Virtual Machine).


One can fix this issue by using one of these methods:ġ.
