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Space in Disk is more than I configured (Don't Understand Provisioned Space)

aaliciardi — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:23:59 GMT

Hi Everyone!

I was working with VM, and have some questions related.

I created a VM "CL-Agentes del Estado" with a 150Gb disk.

But, I checked, and the Provisioned Space is bigger than I expected.

In the OS I checked the disk and was a lot of empty space:

So, I checked the configuration

Why the Provisioned Space is so much bigger than the used/configured space?

Is there a way to reduce the provisioned space?

Why provisioned space exceed the maximum size configured for the disk?

I need more space to run backup jobs, and I can't, because provisiones space exceed that I expected.

Thanks for Help!

Re: Space in Disk is more than I configured (Don't Understand Provisioned Space)

IRIX201110141 — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:39:20 GMT

The provisioned value also take into account that you have a snapshot which possible can grow up to 100% of the orignal vDisk size. Increase the number of snaps and the number will go up with every snap.

Regards

Joerg

Re: Space in Disk is more than I configured (Don't Understand Provisioned Space)

aaliciardi — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 19:03:35 GMT

Thanks Joerg!!!

I will check my snapshots!