VMware Delete Consolidate Helper Snapshot
Sometimes a VM, particularly a VDR VMware Data Recovery VM can gain a huge snapshot with a name like "consolidate helper". You cannot simply delete this snapshot, VMware will not let you.
Shutdown the guest operating system on the VM, to shut it down.
Once it has completely stopped, add a new snapshot.
Then open the Snapshot Manager (from the right-button menu in the VM index).
Then "Delete All" snapshots.
Don't worry if that times out and produces an error, this can happen but it is just the GUI timing out, it will still delete all the snapshots.
Power on the VM.
Shutdown the guest operating system on the VM, to shut it down.
Once it has completely stopped, add a new snapshot.
Then open the Snapshot Manager (from the right-button menu in the VM index).
Then "Delete All" snapshots.
Don't worry if that times out and produces an error, this can happen but it is just the GUI timing out, it will still delete all the snapshots.
Power on the VM.
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