Hi all, I come across one of my VM which have the warning message"Virtual machine disk consolidation is needed " and I check and there's no existing snapshots under SnapShot manager.
When I browse the datastore I a lot of vmdk files such as the below. How do I properly proceed with clearing up ? It's a production server so would it be safe for me to power off ?
The ESX server is running ESX Server 5.1 U1
Server1_00.vmdk 157GB
Server1.vmdk 41GB
Server1_1-000002.vmdk 18MB
Server1-000001.vmdk 18MB
Server1-0000001-ctk.vmdk 2.5MB
Server1_1-000001.vmdk 18MB
Server1_1-0000001-ctk.vmdk 4MB
Server1_1-0000002-ctk.vmdk 4MB
Server1-000002.vmdk 18MB
Server1-0000002-ctk.vmdk 4MB
Server1-Snapshot.vmsn 19KB
Server1-000003.vmdk 210MB
Server1-000003-ctk.vmdk 2MB
Server1_1-000003.vmdk 250MB
Server1_1-000003-ctk.vmdk 4MB
Just right click on the VM and select "snapshot" and then select "consolidate"
Just right click on the VM and select "snapshot" and then select "consolidate"
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