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In my VMware host, a vmware guest was shown with Provisioned Storage of 58Gb and Not-shared Storage of 2.26KB. Any idea what's the actual storage of my VM that actually consume right now ?
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Why are there such a difference ? Size of datastore of 58Gb should be the sum of everything that guest OS is occupied, correct ?
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I use VEEAM backup to backup my VM guest but it come up with > 160Gb of space without complete.
The max. size of VM is 58Gb so why is there such a big difference ?
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The max. size of VM is 58Gb so why is there such a big difference ?
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How many snapshots are you having?
Each snapshot results in a fork and would create a new vmdk file.
Each snapshot results in a fork and would create a new vmdk file.
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No snapshots. Tks
The Veeam Backup question is a new question. I believe your question has been answered, If the Answer has been helpful, please assign points, and close this question. PLease post a new Question related to your Veeam backup issue, and myself or other Experts will be glad to assist.
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But this may not be the same as actual files and folders used in the VMDK, this you can tell, by checking the space used in your OS.
Provisioned Storage – Shows datastore space guaranteed to the virtual machine. The entire space might not be used by the virtual machine if it has disks in thin provisioned format. Other virtual machines can occupy any unused space.