Snapshot consolidation is a process of committing the content of snapshots to the base disk. Traditionally, snapshots that were managed by third-party backup solutions were prone to mismanagement. This lead to stale snapshot files and other residual files left in the virtual machine directory, and skewed information displayed in the snapshot manager UI. This option eases the troubleshooting and snapshot management effort by ascertaining the virtual machine disk that requires consolidation and providing a UI to consolidate the files.