VM disk is Full

[RanjnaAggarwal]

What will happen if vm hard disk is full.....suspended or any other action?

[abhilashhb]

It slows down the OS. and the apps inside the VM will suffer. I don't think it will get suspended.

[schepp]

It the same as on physical servers with physical disks. You can't save new files, log files can't be written anymore, you might not be able to login, etc.

Nothing special here

[RanjnaAggarwal]

because in hyper-v this behavior is to suspend the vm that's why i am asking this question?

[schepp]

What a coincidence, just got a warning from our Icinga-Server:

Service State: c:\ - total: 60.00 Gb - used: 59.94 Gb (100%) - free 0.06 Gb (0%)

VM still running

[abhilashhb]

Thats coz its not on hyper-v

[RanjnaAggarwal]

I got this message retry or cancel when my vm disk was full and vm was automatically powered off

[aravinds3107]

is your datastore full or the guest OS partition full?

Even if the guest OS is full i have seem VM's running but the if the datastore is running out of space you see the events in vSphere client which you have mentioned

[MarVista]

The VM will remain operational.

Yours,
Mar Vista

[RanjnaAggarwal]

no it was not....it was powered off

[OzerS]

Thats because your datastore was full, not VM in OS level.

[Gortee · Accepted solution]

I think this has been answered but there are two possible answers:

1. You VMFS datastore is full: Then all vm's on that datastore will be suspended until you free up some storage.  This can be caused by snapshots, thin provision growth, bad placement, powering on virtual machines etc.  The simple answer is you have to move virtual machines off the lun before vm's can be powered up.

2. You guest VM hard drive fills up:  Depends on operating system but most will keep running but be unable to write logs etc... until you clean up space.  It's really dependant on the OS.   There is no difference here from a physical machine.   If a Physical OS will shutdown when out of storage the virtual will too.

Thanks,

[NagangoudaPatil]

The VM will be in suspended mode, have experience on vmware workstation.