Hi everybody,
vCenter Performance tab chart for Storage by File Type shows some numbers (e.g. 146GB on 1TB storage) for “other”, which is different than “Other VM files”. Any clue what that stuff is?
vCenter help tells that Other is "Amount of disk space used by all other non-virtual machine files, such as documentation files and backup files.” I checked the datastorage and didn't found anything that looks like "non-virtual machine files, such as documentation files and backup files”. There are only VM directories created through vCenter and LabManager.
I made a list of file extensions contained in that storage:
vmdk
vmsd
hlog
log
nvram
png
vmsn
vmss
vmx
vmxf
vswp
nvram
Snapshot
sf
I could only think that some *.vmdk files could be unused (not sure, though) and they don't sum up to the "Other" numbers.
Does anyone know how that "other" value is calculated?
Regards,
Pavel