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jamil2014
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When vm work increase storage size

Hi Dear Friends,yestarday i decrease vm storage size from 110 gb to 101 gb (from cli ssh connect to esxi). when vm is power of storafe size 101 gb. but when power on storage show 105 gb. why i dont know

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scott28tt
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VM has how much memory? VM has how many snapshots?

 


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IRIX201110141
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  1. Reducing the size of a VMDK is not supported
  2. If a VM is powered off the size of the the swap file is 0 bytes. If you powered on the size of the swap file is the same as the configured vMEM of the VM (assumed there is no memory reservation).  This increase the storage consumption of a VM
  3. Quiesced Snapshots also increase the storage consumption because the vMem is stored also

I think you see #2 which is pretty normal.

Regards,
Joerg

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jamil2014
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http://woshub.com/shrinking-vmdk-virtual-disk-vmware-esxi/ like here is possibe reduce size of vmdk

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jamil2014
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vm has not any snapshot

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