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9.3

Virtual Hard Drive is showing a False Space Allocation

Asked by Rnetmaster in Microsoft Virtual Server

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I am running Server 2003 Exchange virtually with MS Virtual Server 2005. If I go into the C:\drive of the Host and drill down to the Virtual Guest Server Folder where all the Guest Servers live, and open it up I have two Virtual Hard Drives C & D. When I property them for size I get approximately 53GB between the two drives. If I go to the actual Virtual Mail server and Property the two Virtual drives on this server I get approximately 30GB. If I open up the eMail Archive Storage Group and drill down to eMail Archive Mailbox Store / Mailboxes most of them are there, the rest seem to be in the General Storage Group/General Storage Mailbox Store/Mailboxes. I got took the total of all the mailboxes and all the public folders and it amounted to approximately 8GB.
The question I'm getting drilled on by the Boss is why does the Virtual Host show the VMGuest\MailServer C&D drive reading 53GB in use, while the actual Virtual Mail Server is reading approximately 30GB in use, while the above storage groups report approximately 8GB of space is being used? What is it that I'm missing here? I'm thinking that the Virtual HD's are expanded and they need to be compacted, but is there something else that is on exchange that is taking up space that I'm missing? I need to give the boss an answer and I'm far from an Exchange Guru!
PLEASE HELP!
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Zone: Microsoft Virtual Server
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