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An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Change tracking target file already exists.

Posted by alambert on September 27, 2016
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To move the CBT files and consolidate snapshots:
  1. SSH to Host
  2. Navigate to the VM folder using this command: cd /vmfs/volumes/datastore/virtual_machine/
  3. Create a temporary directory for the CBT files. mkdir temp
  4. Move the CBT files to temp directory. mv *-ctk.vmdk temp/
  5. Run the snapshot consolidation again.

Error consolidating VM

Posted by alambert on February 1, 2016
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If you receive the following error another VM likely has the disk mounted, probably from a backup process. Shutdown the VM, remove the disk, restart the VM. In some cases you may need to reboot the ESX. 
An error occurred while consolidating disks: msg.snapshot.error-DISKLOCKED
An error occurred while consolidating disks: msg.fileio.lock.