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  • 1.  VMware vCenter datastore performance tab issue

    Posted May 25, 2010 01:30 PM

    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



  • 2.  RE: VMware vCenter datastore performance tab issue

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 25, 2010 04:02 PM

    Which Version of DB you have installed ?

    You use the port default to connect in DB ?

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  • 3.  RE: VMware vCenter datastore performance tab issue

    Posted May 26, 2010 12:59 PM

    Installed DB is Microsoft SQL server 2005, default configuration, default ports



  • 4.  RE: VMware vCenter datastore performance tab issue

    Posted May 26, 2010 01:32 PM

    > Does anyone know how that "other" value is calculated?

    Other is anything that is not a VM ware file or a registered VM. If you have a VM and the vmdk becomes orphaned, that will also become "other", since it's not in inventory. so probably other is a file that's not part of the CURRENT VM inventory, registered vmx file or anything associated with VM's in the vCenter list.

    Hence "other".



  • 5.  RE: VMware vCenter datastore performance tab issue

    Posted May 26, 2010 02:45 PM

    so probably other is a file that's not part of the CURRENT VM inventory, registered vmx file or anything associated with VM's in the vCenter list.

    Storage filled with the booth vCenter and LabManager VM's.

    LabManager VM's have a chain of vmdk files. Is that chain vmdk calculating like "other"?