the size of ar-svr-scans01 keeps growing, i have a script that checks the size and have to restart every couple of days, no snapshots ever taken, i know this has been asked too many times but I haven't been able to figure this out, any help is appreciated, thanks
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Hi,
Ok, that helps.
VMware Fusion 7.x is a bit old, but from the looks of it you are not on the latest macOS version either. I suggest to keep both the way it is (at least for now).
Your VM appears to have 7 virtual disks. So I would expect that your Windows itself has drives C: to drive I: (or something along those lines.. drive names can be different and I've not even considered a virtual CD/DVD drive which you likely also have)
The reason those files are "from today" is because your VM is running and the last update date is what you are seeing. So it makes perfect sense that those files are from today.
The question now is how much data each disk in the virtual machine itself uses. It is expected that the guest OS disks grow when you save more data in the virtual disk.
IF there's a big discrepancy then you might be able to shrink the disks, but that will mean some downtime.
Plus you would need at least 150GB of free disk space on that same macOS host drive before starting the shrink process.
Note also that I highly recommend taking a backup of that VM before you take any action on it to reclaim disk space.
You can take a backup by shutting down the VM then copy the whole VM bundle to an external disk.
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Wil
Hi,
That screenshot doesn't show any details.
What is in the vm bundle? (right click on the vm -> show package contents)
Also missing info like what operating system the VM is running.
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Wil
Apologies, I am running VMware Fusion Version 7.1.1 on my Mac. Here's the screenshot of VM bundle and its running Windows Server 2003.
Hi,
Ok, that helps.
VMware Fusion 7.x is a bit old, but from the looks of it you are not on the latest macOS version either. I suggest to keep both the way it is (at least for now).
Your VM appears to have 7 virtual disks. So I would expect that your Windows itself has drives C: to drive I: (or something along those lines.. drive names can be different and I've not even considered a virtual CD/DVD drive which you likely also have)
The reason those files are "from today" is because your VM is running and the last update date is what you are seeing. So it makes perfect sense that those files are from today.
The question now is how much data each disk in the virtual machine itself uses. It is expected that the guest OS disks grow when you save more data in the virtual disk.
IF there's a big discrepancy then you might be able to shrink the disks, but that will mean some downtime.
Plus you would need at least 150GB of free disk space on that same macOS host drive before starting the shrink process.
Note also that I highly recommend taking a backup of that VM before you take any action on it to reclaim disk space.
You can take a backup by shutting down the VM then copy the whole VM bundle to an external disk.
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Wil
OK, good to hear.
I still recommend to make backups of that VM.
Especially as the hardware is probably aging (or you wouldn't be able to run VMware Fusion 7.x)
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Wil