I am helping a buddy out and running into roadblocks for his problem.
I'm not a Veeam guy and stay away from the snapshots when I can so with that....
I am seeing a ton of ghost? missing in action snapshots or phantom open snaps when i browse the datastore but when in snapshot manager there is nothing there.
I have read taking a snapshot and checking the Quiesce Guest file system, then deleting the open snap. However this works 75% of the time I run into a VM that I have to power the system down clone the machine and wait.... then power on the clone and delete the troublesome VM. Time to time I get this error
"An error occurred while consolidating disks: msg.fileio.lock."
I am wondering if this is the case of Veeam or snapshots in general for any other snap based backup.
Personally I am a user of BackupExec and just doing file level backups.
I am adding a screenshot from a datastore of the problem I am seeing.
Any thoughts would be great.