I’ve been using vCenter 6 for a while now and noticed an odd issue pertaining to snapshots. It seems that all guest show a “revert to current snapshot” state even if a snapshot does not actually exist.
However viewing under the Snapshot Manger… shows no existing snapshots associated with the virtual machine guests.
I’ve noticed this this issue does not exist when using the vSphere Web Client.
These symptoms have been confirmed by VMware official in the following KB: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2111363
For now there are no resolution steps…
Symptom Recap:
- There are no snapshots on virtual machine(s).
- Virtual machines show Revert to current snapshot (right-click on the virtual machine > Snapshot > Revert to current snapshot) enabled in vSphere Client when connected to the vCenter Server 6.0.
- When viewing the Snapshot Manager (right-click on the virtual machine > Snapshot > Snapshot Manager) for the virtual machine in the vSphere Client, there are no snapshots present.
- Directly logging into the ESXi host using the vSphere Client shows the Revert to current snapshot grayed out.
- Creating and deleting a snapshot does not resolve this issue.
- In the vSphere Web Client Revert to current snapshot appears grayed out.
Work around:
- Ignore the vSphere Client results and use the vSphere Web Client
- Use PowerCli to display snapshots.
Example command I like to use:
Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select VM,Name,Description,@{Label="Size";Expression={"{0:N2} GB" -f ($_.SizeGB)}},Created | Out-GridView