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Insufficient disk space on datastore 'xyz'.

vCenter V6.7u3q
ESXi 6.0u3d

I'm upgrading the vCenter & hosts and am trying to put hosts in Maintenance Mode, however when I try to manually migrate a 500GB server to another host, I get the error:

"MyServer

    MyHost

        Insufficient disk space on datastore 'xyz'."

The swap datastore is capacity 103.27GB, Used 427.31MB Free 102.86MB.

I then tried to migrate another server from another host, this servers is 5.67TB provisioned and it migrates OK.

I don't understand the issue?

All my hosts use the same swap datastore as the Virtual Machines \ Swap File Location. This is the second time it has happened to me and I had to increase the swap datastore size, but I'm not sure by how much.

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pashnal
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If you are migrating virtual machines between two ESX hosts that store the virtual machine swap files in different locations then you may require enough disk space to store two full sized copies of the virtual machine swap file in the destination swap file datastore .  

In your case 190GB X 2 =380GB Space on the swap datastore . 

 

Hope this is clear . 

 

Thanks Pashnal 

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pashnal
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Hi , 

Swap file depends on the size of the memory , What is the amount of memory allocated to this VM which is not migrating . 

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pashnal 

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The server I am trying to migrate has 3.8GB memory used, 190GB allocated to the VM and is using 190.54GB of host memory.

 

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pashnal
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Is it using 190.54GB  or MB of host memory ?  Just to confirm if its a swap file issue , will you be able to reserve all the memory for this vm under VM edit setting and select reserve memory and then migrate the VM and check 

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The virtual server has 190GB allocated to it.

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If you are migrating virtual machines between two ESX hosts that store the virtual machine swap files in different locations then you may require enough disk space to store two full sized copies of the virtual machine swap file in the destination swap file datastore .  

In your case 190GB X 2 =380GB Space on the swap datastore . 

 

Hope this is clear . 

 

Thanks Pashnal 

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Thanks. Looks like that fixed the issue.

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