Thursday, March 6, 2014

How to check a VMDK snapshot for consistency

Sometimes a VM snapshot can get corrupted.  You can check for consistency by running vmkfstools against the last snapshot in the chain for a VMDK.

vmkfstools -q -v10 VMNAME-SNAPNUMBER0000X.vmdk

Look for the run to be error-free.

If there are errors, you may need to reference this KB article from VMware to clean up your snapshot chain:

Resolving the CID mismatch error: The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created

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