Datastore 'free' space appears incorrect.

[talion83]

My Datastore had 15gb free, I went to increase one of my systems Hard Drives (and thought I did) but that system is still showing the same HD space (in ESX/VM IC) and my curren't 'free' space is displaying as 3.74gb. I went through and deleted all of my snapshots, no change. I even went into my Datastore and added up EVERY single file...I should have ~20gb free.

Any thoughts?

[Wimo · Accepted solution]

From the client, datastore space seems to take a while to catch up to reality in my experience. If you log onto the service console and do vdf -h you will get an accurate picture.

[talion83]

When I use that command i get 'bash: vdf: command not found'.

I use Putty to SSH into the Console, I login as my SSH user. Got above error. I did 'su' and changed to root, same. I did 'CD /', got the same, i also tried going to the datastore directory and got the same thing (also tried vdf -h /vmfs/volumes). Any idea on what I may be doing wrong? Also, the Snapshot deletes were done yesterday, about 12-15 hours ago.

I am using ESX Server 3.5, Build: 123630.

[Wimo]

As root, try /usr/sbin/vdf -h (or cd to that directory first).

[talion83]

VDF does not exist within the /usr/bin folder.

[Wimo]

not /usr/bin --- /usr/sbin

[talion83]

ahh my apologies. when i run that command it shows for my VMFS/volumes:

size - 271; used 235G; Avail 35G

How do I get the infrastructure to recognize this so I can actually use it to launch a new VM?

[Wimo]

If the space is there, you should be able to use it, whether the client is displaying it correctly or not. As for how to get the client to be more accurate - good question!

[talion83]

Wimo, thanks for your assistance. I'll be putting in at ticket with VM support to see if they can help me resolve this issue.