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You may need to perform a manual snapshot consolidation operation in vSphere.
The Summary tab in vSphere for a virtual machine shows the following message:
snapshot consolidation required
This issue can occur when VMware cannot commit snapshots and the snapshot disk is left in the virtual machine directory.
To resolve this issue, see the VMware KB article Unable to delete the virtual machine snapshots (2017072).