Using VMware Workstation or Player, power on the Windows XP Mode virtual machine that VMware created. Lastly, go through the Windows XP setup wizard within the new virtual machine the same way you would do it for a regular Windows XP system. At this point, you should have a VMware virtual machine running Windows XP.
The warning âVirtual Machine disks consolidation is neededâ in the Summary tab of a virtual machine in the VMware vSphere console means that when deleting a snapshot (using the option Delete or Delete All), the snapshot VMDK files or logs have not been deleted correctly (remain on the storage). This causes a virtual machine backup errors.
The most typical causes of the âVirtual Machine disks consolidation is neededâ error are:
To fix the error âVirtual machine Consolidation Neededâ, right-click on the virtual machine and select VM -> Snapshots -> Consolidate.
A window with the following request appears:
Confirm Consolidate
This operation consolidates all redundant redo logs on your virtual machine. Are you sure you want to continue?
Confirm that you want to delete the redundant logs. Then vCenter will consolidate disks and clear the logs. The consolidation may take a few minutes and the VM performance may degrade.
After that the warning of the VM consolidation will disappear.
In some cases, during consolidation you may see this error in the vSphere console:
Unable to access file since it is locked. An error occurred while consolidating disks: Failed to lock the file. Consolidation failed for disk node âscsi0:0â: Failed to lock the file.
In this case VMware recommends to restart Management agents on the ESXi server. To do it, connect to the host via SSH and run this command:
services.sh restart
However, you can try to unlock the VM files as follows:
You can find all virtual machines that require consolidation using PowerCLI. To do it, connect to your vCenter server:
Connect-VIServer mun_vsphere.woshub.com
Get the list of all VMs with the status âVirtual machine disks consolidation is neededâ:
Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.Extensiondata.Runtime.ConsolidationNeeded}
Now you can consolidate the disks of all machines in the list:
Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.Extensiondata.Runtime.ConsolidationNeeded} | foreach {$_.ExtensionData.ConsolidateVMDisks_Task()}
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