My ESX 4.1 was running out of disk space so that I try to delete the snapshot, it seems that the snapshot was not remove completely so that the SBS2011STD-000005.vmdk still exist then I remove the current hard drive which using SBS2011STD-000005.vmdk and then create new disk by using existing virtual disk SBS2011STD.vmdk
After, I reboot the virtual machine, it got blue screen then the virtual machine restart.
I have found this VMware KB which is about consolidating snapshots
But I am not sure if this is the way to resolve this problem.
Best Answer
If for some reason the snapshot was linked to the running machine, or it had not completed the integration into the running machine, you may have deleted files that were still in use or necessary for the "current" state of the VM.
You would have to restore from backup to get it running again, from my experiences.