Hi All,
I've got a VM with a 4.2TB *_1-flat.vmdk file.
How do I get rid of this?
Thanks!
Hi,
Just an update: another engineer closer to the site went ahead & ran a P2V on the VM itself. The flat file disappeared as a result of this.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Craig
That's a virtual disk file which contains data. Are you certain you want to delete disk data?
OK, is it a file that's continually in use? Or maybe has data that's not orphaned? Is there any way I can verify this?
That file is the actual disk extent where data resides from one of your VMDKs. Do you have a VMDK that large provisioned on that VM? If so, this flat file is where all the data is stored. You cannot delete that file through any of the various GUIs unless you also delete the VMDK (descriptor) file. So if you're not absolutely sure what you're doing, don't go wantonly deleting files comprising a VM.
Thanks, and no I won't. It has just been brought to my attention and I hopped on here quickly to get some information which you have given me. I will check out and see what's going on with the provisioned disks and then reply back here.
OK, the disks are configured as follows:
* Hard disk 1 - 100GB (Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed)
* Hard Disk 2 - 950GB (Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed)
* Hard disk 3 - 1500GB (Thin Provision)
Thanks!
Show a screenshot of your VM's configuration, and also run an ls -lh inside the home directory of that VM and paste the output to show all files in its directory.
Thanks, how would I go about doing that?
From an SSH session, change directories into this VM's directory and do ls -lh to show all files.
Hi,
Just an update: another engineer closer to the site went ahead & ran a P2V on the VM itself. The flat file disappeared as a result of this.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Craig