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4 Replies Last post: Aug 27, 2008 3:18 AM by java_cat33
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Storage capacity problems

Aug 27, 2008 2:50 AM

Click to view Aleksandar_Macedonia's profile Novice Aleksandar_Macedonia 11 posts since
Aug 10, 2008

Hi,

I had just seen, that after installing Win2K3(two hard disk 20GB and 200GB) on my host, the free space is not correct. I have 809 GB on my host but after instaling Win2K3 i have only 138B free space. i mean 809GB-220GB not equals to 135GB.

I had restarted the ESX host, but there were no changes.

Here is a picture of the storage details.

Thank you

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Reply Re: Storage capacity problems Aug 27, 2008 3:01 AM
Click to view java_cat33's profile Master java_cat33 1,071 posts since
Aug 29, 2007

Wow you've been ripped off huh? ;)

Does the value change if you refresh your storage? There's nothing else listed within the datastore if you browse it?

If not..... try restarting the following service...

service mgmt-vmware restart

See if that makes any difference.

Reply Re: Storage capacity problems Aug 27, 2008 3:11 AM
Click to view shamim-a's profile Enthusiast shamim-a 113 posts since
Mar 2, 2007
Confirm the size difference from Service Console also.
Use vdf -h command.

If you can see the diff in SC, it may be because of open files.
use the command
lsof (list open files)
to see currently opened files. check for a file with arge size. size will be in bytes.
once you get the file, note the PID and kill it, by using
kill -9 <PID>

Shamim
Reply Re: Storage capacity problems Aug 27, 2008 3:14 AM
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Click to view Aleksandar_Macedonia's profile Novice Aleksandar_Macedonia 11 posts since
Aug 10, 2008

I had refreshed the storage's, the values are the same.

But now i think i know where is the problem.

I was making some tests by adding different hard disk to my virtual machine, but i was removing them, so i guess some copies had "survived" :))

I have seen them now, so i think i will delete them-i hope the right ones :))

thx

Reply Re: Storage capacity problems Aug 27, 2008 3:18 AM
in response to: Aleksandar_Macedonia
Click to view java_cat33's profile Master java_cat33 1,071 posts since
Aug 29, 2007

When you remove a disk from a VM there are two options - one is to remove the disk (it's removed from the VM, however the disk is not deleted), the second is to completely destroy the disk.
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