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For backup purposes, it creates snapshots of the virtual machine and deletes automatically without affecting the virtual machine performance. Generally, there is some proxy backup server that performs the virtual machine backup jobs in the background. We will be discussing the common reason for solving the disk consolidation issue. Generally, this shows the file is locked. If It fails to consolidate check for the error message. Go to Monitor tab and tasks to monitor the progress. Click on the Action button or right click on the virtual machine.What is the procedure to perform a disk consolidation? It happens, if you delete a snapshot but its associated disk does not commit back to the base disk. Snapshot consolidation is very useful when snapshot disks fail to compress after a Delete or Delete all operations at snapshot Manager. The vSphere Client shows itself a warning message ‘ Virtual Machine Disks Consolidation Is Needed ‘ under the virtual machine summary tab to perform a disk consolidation.