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I had a snapshot that had eaten the free space in a datastore. I deleted the snapshot and now the snapshot manager is empty but I see delta disks and disks such as -0002.vmdk,... -0005.vmdk etc are still in the datastore. I made consolidation (as it recommends in such cases) but get an error

Consolidation error

So I restart services with servises.sh restart. It completed successful but I still can't consolidate the VM disks and to free the space in the datastore. Any help would be appreciated!

Gerald Schneider
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  • Did you follow [the VMware KB article](https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/10051) to find out what is locking the file? And why are you using such a outdated version of ESXi? – Gerald Schneider Sep 21 '20 at 18:58
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    How long were the snapshots lying around that they got that big - you know they're not a backup and shouldn't be left in place for more than a few days right? – Chopper3 Sep 21 '20 at 19:22

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