jgaddi,
Thanks for the response! I forgot to mention in my original post that when I created this VM I set the virtual disk size to 2,000GB with Thin provisioning. I could understand a large vmdk if I had used thick provisioning, but I don't understand why there is such a large difference between the guest file system size and the size of the vmdk in a thin provisioned VM. I have created other VM's on this machine using the same methods and the vmdk has always been very close to the actual VM file system size.
Also, thanks for the link, but it tells me I am not authorized to view the document.