I have a VM that is using 50GB of data on a 2TB datastore, however the datastore shows full at 2TB.
Things that I have checked:
Why am I showing that I'm using 2TB of data when I am only using about 50GB?
Most likely
Login through SSH and show us the output of
Regards,
Joerg
Option 1 and 3 don't really make any sense to me but here is the results of the ls command. As you can see there is NO snapshots.
[root@crbhost02:/vmfs/volumes/5d19d2ab-e3b97f48-6df2-34800d110436/ClerkFS] ls -lhr
total 2060201088
-rw------- 1 root root 86.0M Jul 22 09:59 vmx-ClerkFS-2438309173-1.vswp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 225.5K Jul 22 14:48 vmware.log
-rw------- 1 root root 436.9K Jul 22 09:59 vmware-3.log
-rw------- 1 root root 256.8K Jul 22 09:59 vmware-2.log
-rw------- 1 root root 506.1K Jul 22 09:59 vmware-1.log
-rw------- 1 root root 356.3K Jul 22 10:32 vmware-0.log
-rw------- 1 root root 501 Jul 22 10:49 ClerkFS_1.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2.0T Jul 22 14:57 ClerkFS_1-flat.vmdk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.9K Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS.vmx~
-rw------- 1 root root 47 Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS.vmxf
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 09:59 ClerkFS.vmx.lck
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.9K Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 09:59 ClerkFS.vmsd
-rw------- 1 root root 551 Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 264.5K Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS.nvram
-rw------- 1 root root 250.0G Jul 22 14:59 ClerkFS-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 13 Jul 22 09:59 ClerkFS-aux.xml
-rw------- 1 root root 16.0G Jul 22 09:59 ClerkFS-9155a535.vswp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 968 Jul 22 10:32 ClerkFS-1dd4d12d.hlog
[root@crbhost02:/vmfs/volumes/5d19d2ab-e3b97f48-6df2-34800d110436/ClerkFS]
You havent exactly provide the answers i have asked vor. Yes... options 3 it unlikely but 1 is very comon thats why i have ask to list all files from the datastore and not from a single directory.
If you are really sure that the 2 vDisks (250GB and 2 TB in size) are thin provisioning
grep -i thin ClerkFS_1-flat.vmdk
check it again. A
du -sh *
will display the current real file sizes. If there are no other files on that Datastore than i expect the both *-flat.vmdk are larger than you think. What i have see often is that the GuestOS admin havent mark the "quick format" check box so the GuestOS filesystem format/allocate all blocks.
Regards,
Joerg
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