After deleting all snapshots, still seeing lots of vmdk files under VM location

[sateamzoot]

Hi team! In order to increase disk space on the host machine I deleted all VM snapshots. But after checking I noticed that lots of vmdk files are still there and deleting the snapshots only freed up 40 Gigs of memory.
Is there a correct and safe way to remove these big vmdk files?

[a_p_]

Please run dir *.* /oen > filelist.txt in the VM's folder to get a complete file listing.
Then compress/zip filelist.txt, *.vmx, *.vmsd, and the vmware*.log files, and attach the .zip archive to your next reply.

André

[sateamzoot]

Here's the filelist, but was not able to run the compress command. If that is not enough pls guide me what to do

[a_p_]

With only the file listing I can just guess.

It looks like the VM still has an active snapshot.
Please open the VM's Snapshot Manager, and make sure that you have the "Show AutoProtect snapshots" checkbox enabled.
If no snapshot shows up, then - from within the Snapshot Manager - take a new snapshot, select that one, and hit the Delete button.

André

[valerio_vanni]

Perhaps they are orphaned snapshots, I faced this issue:

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/VM-disk-space-size-too-big/m-p/2946297#M179...

[a_p_]

@valerio_vanni 

I don't think that it is an orphaned snapshot in this case.
The snapshot files' timestamps are newer than those from the base disk's files.

André