Sunday 20 January 2013

Consolidate Helper- 0


If you are using VSphere 4.x or higher and Veeam Backup & Replication v6 and getting random 'Consolidate Helper- 0' snapshot(s) in snapshot manager, as shown in the screenshot, it is time to upgrade to Veaam Backup & Replication version 6.5. For whatever reason you cannot upgrade to 6.5 or downgrade to 5 then create an alert in VIClietnt Alarms to notify VMs running on snapshot and delete the snapshot manually as soon as you get an alert.



Having couple or more of these Snapshot will massively deteriorate your VMs performance specially if this is on your File, SQL or Exchange server which require high disk read and write IOs. Also not to forget the disk space they consume which carry great risk of bringing your VM(s) to a complete halt and the time it takes to delete them to bring your VMs up and online.


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