Host machine running out of disk because of Workstation

[ootsun]

Hello,

I've an urgent problem. I've a CentOS 7 hosted on a Windows 10 machine.

My Windows is running out of space (4GB left out of 237). This is due to my VM getting bigger and bigger every week. It's present size is 188GB. When I look into my CentOS 7, the disk usage is 24GB. How is it then possible that my VM is so big? I try to use the "Shrink" tool from vmware-toolbox-cmd but it failed because my host machine hasn't enough space left.

Do you guys have a solution for me?

Thanks for reading!

OoTsun

[RDPetruska]

Do you have snapshots created?

Do you have the "auto-protect" feature enabled?  If so, it takes snapshots periodically.

This will certainly eat up disk space.

What is the defined size of your virtual disk (not how much the guest thinks is actually used)?  If it is a growable disk, then the host space will increase as disk write operations occur in the guest (and deletes are merely overwrites).