Alistar
Expert
Expert

Hi Stan,

to answer your questions systematically:

The SVR_QA_1 folder was created because this name has already existed - maybe the last file was still locked but it failed to delete itself - this is the currently live VM and the "old" SVR_QA folder seems to contain an orphaned VMDK that can be deleted. You can align these names back via OVF export -> import.

The VMDKs with

- [Free-NAS01] SVR-QA_1/SVR-QA-000001.vmdk

- [Free-NAS01] SVR-QA_1/SVR-QA_1-000001.vmdk

- [Free-NAS01] SVR-QA_1/SVR-QA_2-000001.vmdk

Are snapshot copies of your Virtual Machine. I see they are more than 100GB in size, so I strongly recommend that you right-click on the running virtual machine out of business hours (or whenever the environment is about to be used the least, usually in the evening) and choose Snapshot -> Consolidate as pointed out in this KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=200363...

The space difference between what Datastore Browser tells you and what you actually see on your FreeNAS Server might be because of the difference in provisioning. Seeing that there are differences between Size and Provisioned size columns, you are using Thin Provisioning, correct?

You can not copy locked files because they are in use by the hypervisor. And rightfully so, losing touch with the VMs files would result in an OS crash. You can see which VMDK files are locked by logging in to your ESXi host via SSH as a root and doing lsof | grep SVR-QA_1 to list the files that are being actively used for your SVR-QA_1 VM. Try doing the same for SVR-WIN-IDS and see which ESXi host has them locked. Once you find out that no host has the leftover files locked and that all VMs have their right disks, the leftover files are safe to delete.

I hope you got a little insight into what has happened - good luck on cleaning up Smiley Happy

Stop by my blog if you'd like :slightly_smiling_face: I dabble in vSphere troubleshooting, PowerCLI scripting and NetApp storage - and I share my journeys at http://vmxp.wordpress.com/