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jjj0923
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msg.hbacommon.outofspace - what should I delete?

I got this message this morning when attempting to start a long running vm.

No snapshots show up in the snapshot manager, but I do have ghettovcb backing up the vm nightly.

here's a lit of the files in the directory - what should I delete to correct the problem?

The vm is a windows 2003 server

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Rubeck
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You do have an active snapshot running... Shut the VM down which will clear .vswp file and give you a bit of space.

The do what's described in here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002310

Good luck..

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You do have an active snapshot running... Shut the VM down which will clear .vswp file and give you a bit of space.

The do what's described in here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002310

Good luck..

/Rubeck

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Judging by the size of the snapshot file ghettoVCB will not have been backing up for a while since it won't perfom a backup on a VM with an existing snapshot.

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Hit the submit button too soon. You must be very careful since you will not have a current backup. As the other poster suggested follow the KB article. You may want to shut down some of your other VMs as well since that will also free up aditional space. I would also consider moving some VMs to other storage. You don't want to end up totally out of space and have a partially committed snapshot.

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I shut down the VM but responding "Abort" but it does not look like the snapshot was deleted and then I looked at the instruction on the other page: it says:

Confirm that the virtual machine is not pointing to the base disk. Open the virtual machine configuration file ( .vmx) or edit the settings of the virtual machine and see if any of the virtual disks are using a -00000X.vmdk file. If no disks are using -00000X.vmdk,  this virtual machine is not using any of these files. Although  unlikely, it is possible that another virtual machine is storing its  snapshots in this directory. Check the other virtual machines. If none  of them refer to these files, they can be safely erased.
however it does look like I'm pointing to a snapshot as shwon here there thewheel-000001.vmdk is referenced.
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see attached file:

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ok - I have another vm on that machine I'm going to move off now. it will take me several hours to copy it to san and then back to another host machine, but I'm only have 1gb of free space out of 279gb on this host.

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while I'm at it - I have a few other questions for you expects.

I shut down the other vm running on this host and am copying it's files over to a san device.

I'll confiure another host server today (takes about 20 minutes) which I will move the other VM (currently being copied now) to later today.

In the past I have just copied the files that comprise the vm to my san device and then copy the files from the san to the host and point a new vm to the vmdk file that I've copied off the san.

is this the proper way to perform this process?

thanks in advance.

jeff

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If the ESXi hosts are attached to the SAN why aren't you sharing the LUN between hosts? If the same LUN was attached to multiple hosts you can use vMotion if you have vCenter and the appropriate license. If you don't then you can unregister on one host and then register on the other. A couple of minutes to move a VM from host to host. It wouldn't help here since you are out of space. Perhaps I am not understanding how you are set up.

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I appreciate your response but to answer your response: I do not use my SAN to host VM's. I only use the scsi drives on the servers of the hosts. I only use the san for backup purposes. I am using the free version of esxi3.5 so I do not have vmotion available to me.

so I suppose my last question remains open.

thank you.

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just a quick follow you and thank you. everything is running ok and I've moved some thing around. Kudos awarded - many thanks!

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