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Yes, deleting snapshot will free up some space on datastore.<br />
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Ref :<br />
<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1025279" rel="ugc nofollow">http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1025279</a>
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Yes, deleting snapshot will free up some space on datastore.

Ref :
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1025279 [http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1025279]

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Be very careful when using Snapshots, and do not leave VMs running on snapshots too long, otherwise the Datastore will fill up, and the VM can stop running.<br />
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see my EE Article<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_10300.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: VMware Snapshots :- Be Patient</a><br />
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When you remove the snapshots, the free space will remain, but be careful here.
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Be very careful when using Snapshots, and do not leave VMs running on snapshots too long, otherwise the Datastore will fill up, and the VM can stop running.

see my EE Article

HOW TO: VMware Snapshots :- Be Patient [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_10300.html]

When you remove the snapshots, the free space will remain, but be careful here.

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hanccocka:<br />
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it was good articles.Is it safe to delete 00001.vmdk files in the datastore ? &nbsp;if snapshot manager does not show anything.
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hanccocka:

it was good articles.Is it safe to delete 00001.vmdk files in the datastore ?  if snapshot manager does not show anything.

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VM experts up there.<br />
Some reason the datastore reached the capacity after I took snapshots. Will it free up the space if I delete the snapshots or I have to look for other files in the datastore?
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VM experts up there.
Some reason the datastore reached the capacity after I took snapshots. Will it free up the space if I delete the snapshots or I have to look for other files in the datastore?

delta files and snapshots

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VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.