unning Windows, there’s an awesome little tool called
>>> WinDirStat. For the record, for Mac the equivalent is Disk Inventory X. Run
>>> these tools, or the equivalent for your OS. It’ll give you a pretty picture
>>> like you’ve just broken Tetris of the contents of the drive. Go for the big
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] VMWare Snapshot / Delta VMDK removal
Have a QNAP. So moved the pagefile’s to an ISCIS target. And then removed all
the Delta’s
Freed up 268gb which has allowed the Veeam backups to run
Daniel
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From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-boun...@lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Watson
Sent: Sunday, 19 November 2017 10:23 PM
To: ausnog@lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] VMWare Snapshot / Delta VMDK removal
Thanks
Thanks to all those fantastic people who have responded
I have powered off this particular VM for the time being. And have recovered
35gb in swapfile
I have taken a new successful snapshot. Which then allowed me to delete “all”
snapshots. Including those old delta files. This will take a few
Not at all safe. You'll trash the virtual machine if its running from them
which it likely is. Use the VMware tools to remove any snapshots to clear
out the deltas. If there is no snapshots run a consolidate and get vmware
to clean up the deltas.
Adam
On 19 November 2017 at 18:47, Daniel Watson
Sorry to bother the list but this is critical
Wanted to know from others. If it is safe to remove a delta VMDK file from a
running vm?
A server I am now looking after is running out of space like no tomorrow. And
there are 3 delta VMDK ‘s taking up 80gb of space
Any information would be
