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opike1
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Total Vdisk size is around 150% the configured hard drive size

Using vmware workstation 9.0.1 on windows 7 host with an ubuntu 12.04 guest.

I have no snapshots and my guest OS hard drive is configured to be 42 GB. When I look on my file system, I see 2 vdisks which consume about 66 GB of physical hard drive space. Is this expected and is there any way, other than reducing the virtual disk size, to reduce the physical usage?

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junian_dani
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Hi,

How many vDisks mounted into this VM? Have you tried to 'Compact' the vDisks from Workstation?

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continuum
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You have one vmdk of 40 Gb and one snapshot of 26 GB.

Have a look at the settings of the VM - eiter it uses Ubuntu****.vmdk or Ubuntu****-000002.vmdk.
Snapshotmanager is not reliable - so do not delete the snapshot without first checking if it is still in use.

Looking at the filedates the snapshot is still in active use


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WoodyZ
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While the Snapshot Manager is not showing any Snapshots nonetheless there is a Snapshot Disk in play.  The "Ubuntu 64-bit (3)-000002.vmdk" is a Snapshot Disk.  I see in the picture of the Snapshot Manager you do not have the Show AutoProtect snapshots check box checked.  Is the "Ubuntu 64-bit (3)-000002.vmdk" an AutoProtect Snapshot?

If the "Ubuntu 64-bit (3)-000002.vmdk" is not an AutoProtect Snapshot then a possible scenario is it's a Orphaned Snapshot in that while it is still in use nonetheless it no longer appears in the Snapshot Manager because there was an issue when deleting it and while the entry was removed from the "Ubuntu 64-bit (3).vmsd" file the Snapshot was not merged with the base disk.  If the Host dose not have adequate free disk space to process the merge then a Snapshot can become orphaned.

One way of cleaning this up is to take a new Snapshot and then immediately delete it.  This should force the merge of the orphaned snapshot as well.

NOTE: Do not perform any further actions until you ensure you have adequate free Host disk space to properly complete the operations!

What size is allocated to the virtual hard disk and how much Host free space is there?

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