The text addresses the common issue of VMware virtual machines showing a 'Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed' alert. The post explains the reason for this error and provides multiple ways to fix it. These solutions include consolidating virtual machine disk files correctly, manually consolidating disks through the VMware ESXi web client, and using the vSphere client to consolidate virtual disks. The end goal of these solutions is to merge data from delta disks with the main disk and remove unnecessary files on the storage to resolve the consolidation needed status and prevent failures during backups. The text also mentions a vCenter alarm that is triggered when this status is set.