This blog post applies to the vCenter Server version 5.1.0.880146 and ESXi version 5.1.0.799733. Today i ran into an issue with the Snapshot Consolidate feature. The vSphere Web Client informed me that a “Virtual machine disk consolidation needed” was required for my VM. The virtual machine is backed up by vSphere Data Protection 5.1.0.56.179 and …