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  • 1.  Data store sixe getting increased.

    Posted Jan 17, 2014 10:26 AM

    Hi,

    i have vSphere 5.1 environment. one of my datastore size is continuously increasing whereas all the VMs on that datastore are thick provisioned.

    please suggest the possible cause.

    thanks,

    Deepak



  • 2.  RE: Data store sixe getting increased.

    Posted Jan 17, 2014 10:30 AM

    Hi Deepak,


    I suspect it could be snapshots on the storage causing the size Increase, Do an SSH into one the Host with the data store attached and see what is holding the space..?

    If you have any snapshots on VM commit them.

    Thanks,

    Avinash



  • 3.  RE: Data store sixe getting increased.

    Posted Jan 17, 2014 10:52 AM

    Hi ,

    there is no snapshot/snapshot file present on the host but still size is increasing.



  • 4.  RE: Data store sixe getting increased.

    Posted Jan 17, 2014 10:55 AM

    can you run this command on the host and confirm..? if still no delta files then there could be some kind of logs that are getting written.

    find /vmfs/volumes/ -iname "*delta.vmdk"



  • 5.  RE: Data store sixe getting increased.

    Posted Jan 17, 2014 04:55 PM

    As an alternative to the command line you can use RVTools to find out about snapshots and virtual disk sizes.

    André