Hint when VMWare doesnt show a snapshot

If VMWare ESXi/vCenter/your vSphere environment does not show a virtual machine snapshot, however it is there and the virtual machine is using it, here is a little trick which might help you:

  1. Make sure you have some free space left in your datastore, in which the vm is stored.
  2. Create another virtual machine snapshot 
  3. Click on "delete all snapshots"
This can trigger the ESXi to delete all snapshots, including the one which isn't shown. However this does not always work, in which case working with a clone of the VM and vmkfstools can help.

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