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kralijir
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‎02-08-2016 04:49 AM

VMs spend more space then HDD size

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

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schepp
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‎02-08-2016 05:00 AM

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

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kralijir
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‎02-08-2016 05:32 AM

There is no snapshot for the VM. ScreenHunter_08 Feb. 08 14.31.jpg

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kralijir
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‎02-08-2016 05:32 AM

ScreenHunter_07 Feb. 08 14.31.jpgScreenHunter_06 Feb. 08 14.30.jpg

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schepp
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‎02-08-2016 06:00 AM

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

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kralijir
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‎02-08-2016 06:09 AM

ScreenHunter_09 Feb. 08 15.02.jpg It is a VM from Lab Manager and it is a linked clone.

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schepp
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‎02-08-2016 06:21 AM

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

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