First post in the forums (Hi everyone) - I have found lots of good answers here in the past via search, but I am striking out on this one...
Situation: 2 VMs (1 Windows 2000 server, 1 Windows XP Pro) on an old IBM x3650. In my ignorant days, I had stacked up several snapshots on both machines, so I scheduled an outage and shutdown the Windows 2000 server machine (138G), backed up the entire VM directory, and did a "Delete All Snapshots" ... waited several hours and enjoyed success.
Next night, shutdown and backup XP machine (68G) directory, and "Delete All Snapshots" - 12 hours later it is still stuck at 99%... so I did some searching and did '/sbin/services.sh restart' - logged back into vSphere and started up the XP machine... and it's working fine! (yeah!)
But...
The VM status now shows 'Configuration Issues - virtual machine disks consolidation is needed' - so, leaving the VM running, I kicked off a consolidation process, and it has been running for 30 hours now, and is only at 27%.
Is it time to panic?
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/vmfs/volumes/4f343efa-27f2981d-9d31-001a6467ecb6/Pathtrak_server # tail -n 35 vmware.log
2013-03-19T15:17:46.123Z| vcpu-0| HBACommon: First write on scsi0:0.fileName='/vmfs/volumes/4f343efa-27f2981d-9d31-001a6467ecb6/Pathtrak_server/Pathtrak_server-000001.vmdk'
2013-03-19T15:17:46.123Z| vcpu-0| DISKLIB-DDB : "longContentID" = "8812b3bac3a98ffc7ee254ccd55d2acc" (was "d1c5c9b5ca92e35ec012d162a0359859")
2013-03-19T15:17:46.126Z| vcpu-0| DISKLIB-CHAIN : DiskChainUpdateContentID: old=0xa0359859, new=0xd55d2acc (8812b3bac3a98ffc7ee254ccd55d2acc)
2013-03-19T15:22:38.942Z| mks| SOCKET 3 (87) recv error 104: Connection reset by peer
2013-03-19T15:22:38.942Z| mks| SOCKET 3 (87) destroying VNC backend on socket error: 1
2013-03-19T15:22:38.943Z| mks| MKS: Base polling period is 1000000us
2013-03-19T15:22:39.944Z| mks| SVGA: display status changed, using optimizations for local consoles.
2013-03-19T15:31:50.799Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-19T18:38:06.436Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-19T19:24:51.587Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-19T20:11:51.739Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-19T20:28:36.810Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-19T20:59:06.914Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-19T22:17:52.229Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T01:25:53.012Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T03:48:08.591Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T03:48:38.593Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T08:49:09.890Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T09:43:10.258Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T09:47:55.286Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T09:49:10.292Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T10:07:55.390Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T10:08:25.392Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T10:24:25.455Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T10:25:40.459Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T16:47:57.256Z| vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox timed out.
2013-03-20T18:29:01.533Z| mks| SVGA: Restoring cursor bypass 3 from vm which took 3->2->3 roundtrip
2013-03-20T18:29:16.549Z| mks| SVGA: Restoring cursor bypass 3 from vm which took 3->2->3 roundtrip
2013-03-20T18:29:19.553Z| mks| SVGA: Restoring cursor bypass 3 from vm which took 3->2->3 roundtrip
2013-03-20T18:29:20.554Z| mks| SVGA: Restoring cursor bypass 3 from vm which took 3->2->3 roundtrip
2013-03-20T18:29:21.555Z| mks| SVGA: Restoring cursor bypass 3 from vm which took 3->2->3 roundtrip
2013-03-20T18:29:26.558Z| mks| SVGA: Restoring cursor bypass 3 from vm which took 3->2->3 roundtrip
2013-03-20T18:29:32.561Z| mks| SVGA: Restoring cursor bypass 3 from vm which took 3->2->3 roundtrip
2013-03-20T18:29:39.565Z| mks| SVGA: Restoring cursor bypass 3 from vm which took 3->2->3 roundtrip
2013-03-20T18:30:06.593Z| mks| SVGA: Restoring cursor bypass 3 from vm which took 3->2->3 roundtrip