{"id":2145,"date":"2016-06-30T05:56:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T05:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2016-06-30T05:56:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T05:56:43","slug":"vmware-cannot-create-snapshot-operation-not-allowed-in-current-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/random\/vmware-cannot-create-snapshot-operation-not-allowed-in-current-state","title":{"rendered":"Vmware : Cannot create snapshot. Operation not allowed in current state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1819 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/vmware_view_pilot-51320201-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"vmware_view_pilot-5132020[1]\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p><ol><li>Login to the host where the virtual machine lies and try and do a snapshot via here instead of VCentre<\/li><li>If Take Snapshot is greyed out on the host , then check the settings of the device for :<\/li><\/ol><ul><li>Does it have an PCI Devices cards mapped to it? E.g. for Use of Tape Drives. If so these will need to be removed as Vmware doesn&#8217;t support snapshotting these.<\/li><li>Does it have any physical mapped Drives to it instead of virtual , again is not supported for snapshotting<br \/><ol><li>Try shutting down the VM to see if you can snapshot it shutdown insteaf of powered off<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ul><ol><li><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1003490\">Restart the Management Agents on the hosts<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Login to the host where the virtual machine lies and try and do a snapshot via here instead of VCentreIf Take Snapshot is greyed out on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1555,1554,1556,1557,739,594],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-cannot-create-snapshot","tag-operation-not-allowed-in-current-state","tag-pci-device","tag-tape-drive","tag-veeam","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}