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  • 1.  VMs spend more space then HDD size

    Posted Feb 08, 2016 12:50 PM

    Hi,

    could anybody explain me why in vCenter I can see that my VM is using 120 GB of space, BUT the actual hdd size of the VM is 40GB? Where is the 80GB? Thank you



  • 2.  RE: VMs spend more space then HDD size

    Posted Feb 08, 2016 01:01 PM

    I guess this size difference comes from having snapshots on your VM. Each snapshot can grow up to the size of the actual disk.

    Check your VM for existing snapshots.

    Tim



  • 3.  RE: VMs spend more space then HDD size

    Posted Feb 08, 2016 01:32 PM

    There is no snapshot for the VM.



  • 4.  RE: VMs spend more space then HDD size

    Posted Feb 08, 2016 01:33 PM



  • 5.  RE: VMs spend more space then HDD size

    Posted Feb 08, 2016 02:00 PM

    Hi,

    can you please post a screenshot of the edit settings tab of the VM with the hard disk selected?

    Are you using linked clones?

    Tim



  • 6.  RE: VMs spend more space then HDD size

    Posted Feb 08, 2016 02:09 PM

    It is a VM from Lab Manager and it is a linked clone.



  • 7.  RE: VMs spend more space then HDD size

    Posted Feb 08, 2016 02:22 PM

    I'm not familiar with lab manager, as it was canceled some years ago.

    But since your first screenshots show similar provisioned space levels for multiple VMs, I expect the linked clones to somehow confuse the provisioned space calculation.

    Maybe some else knows more.

    Regards

    Tim