Hello community,
I'm trying to understand why provisioned and disk capacity are now equal in vspshere
My provisioned size is 6.39Tb
And hard disk size:
Disk 1: 100GB
Disk 2: 120GB
Disk 3: 850GB
Disk 4: 1.953TB
Disk 5: 500GB
Total: 3.523TB
I have some snapshots, but I can't explain the numbers,
Can you help me to understand delta and flat files? And why the sizes?
Here size details
[root@esxi03d:/vmfs/volumes/XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXX/Client-APP] du -sch *
208.0K Client-APP-000001-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP-000001.vmdk
6.3M Client-APP-000005-ctk.vmdk
66.9G Client-APP-000005-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP-000005.vmdk
50.2G Client-APP-000009-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP-000009.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP-2eed8f85.hlog
0 Client-APP-3b02d7c7.vswp
48.0K Client-APP-Snapshot1200.vmsn
36.0K Client-APP-Snapshot408.vmsn
4.0K Client-APP-aux.xml
70.1G Client-APP-flat.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP-vss_manifests1200.zip
12.0K Client-APP.nvram
4.0K Client-APP.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP.vmsd
8.0K Client-APP.vmx
0 Client-APP.vmx.lck
0 Client-APP.vmxf
248.0K Client-APP_1-000001-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_1-000001.vmdk
7.5M Client-APP_1-000005-ctk.vmdk
4.9G Client-APP_1-000005-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_1-000005.vmdk
4.8G Client-APP_1-000009-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_1-000009.vmdk
49.8G Client-APP_1-flat.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_1.vmdk
3.9M Client-APP_2-000001-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_2-000001.vmdk
31.4M Client-APP_2-000004-ctk.vmdk
3.0G Client-APP_2-000004-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_2-000004.vmdk
65.0G Client-APP_2-000009-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_2-000009.vmdk
1.9T Client-APP_2-flat.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_2.vmdk
1008.0K Client-APP_3-000001-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_3-000001.vmdk
31.4M Client-APP_3-000004-ctk.vmdk
68.1M Client-APP_3-000004-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_3-000004.vmdk
22.7G Client-APP_3-000009-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_3-000009.vmdk
65.3M Client-APP_3-flat.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_3.vmdk
1.7M Client-APP_5-000001-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_5-000001.vmdk
26.7M Client-APP_5-000004-ctk.vmdk
2.8M Client-APP_5-000004-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_5-000004.vmdk
630.2M Client-APP_5-000009-delta.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_5-000009.vmdk
784.1G Client-APP_5-flat.vmdk
4.0K Client-APP_5.vmdk
0 vmx-Client-APP-7f2098bc9b5f6db133e3993b169dfbc48138f896-2.vswp
3.0T total
Thanks in advance
Ciao
Do you have read this KB
Overview of virtual machine snapshots in vSphere (1015180) (vmware.com)
where it is explained how to function the snapshot?