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VMware server (free version) - how do I keep my hard drive file from growing?

I set up a Vmware server hard disk as a fixed 31 gigs (the file ending in –flat.vmdk). However, Vmware server keeps adding data to a second VMDK file:
“s2k3r2sps-000001.vmdk”, which is now up to 15 gigs. How do we keep this second file from growing or existing at all? The problem is we are running out of space on the physical host disk.

sda100

Hi there,

Can you post the contents of your .vmx file for that virtual machine, and also a directory listing of the folder where the .vmx file is.

Steve

brokeMyLegBiking

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Here are the contents of Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmx

The path is "F:\SharePoint Solutions"
( wish I could send a screenshot of all the files in the folder)

config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
numvcpus = "2"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "2048"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "s2k3r2sps-000001.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "G:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "SharePoint Solutions"
guestOS = "winnetstandard"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

scsi0:0.redo = ""
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d db 3a 92 66 6b 7f-4f 12 5f 63 6a ad c3 74"
uuid.bios = "56 4d db 3a 92 66 6b 7f-4f 12 5f 63 6a ad c3 74"
ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:ad:c3:74"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

checkpoint.vmState = ""
checkpoint.vmState.readOnly = "FALSE"

workingDir = "."
snapshot.protected = "TRUE"

annotation = "Moss and Project Server deployed together."

brokeMyLegBiking

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Is this normal behavior or is my VMserver doing something weird?

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brokeMyLegBiking

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How do you delete a snapshot? Do you just delte the files off the disk? I don't see an option in VMserver console to delete snapshots.

sda100

I think the best way to move at this stage, is to create a standalone clone of your VMware image. This will not carry over any previous or corrupt snapshots. You should clone to a new directory, then see how much disk space the files take up. Try this clone, and if it works (it should do), you can ditch the old image folder and continue with this one.