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the VM machines stopped due to a lack of disk space on the datastore
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No configuration has been changed on Vsphere but an error message pops occasionally and says that the VM machines stopped due to a lack of disk space on the datastore. Nothing can then be done apart from restarting the server physically and start the vm machines again. I erased all vm snapshots so as to clear space but no space appears to be cleared. I also cleared space on the guest servers as well to no avail.
Please advice
No configuration has been changed on Vsphere but an error message pops occasionally and says that the VM machines stopped due to a lack of disk space on the datastore. Nothing can then be done apart from restarting the server physically and start the vm machines again. I erased all vm snapshots so as to clear space but no space appears to be cleared. I also cleared space on the guest servers as well to no avail.
Please advice
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its a raid 5
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You cannot delete using vmware once datastore is full. You need to sneak with other client and zap the files.
What is your server and storage config, you said its RAID-5, but what controller how many disks etc. do you have slots to add extra disks?
if you do not have physical storage available you can use iscsi storage from a cheap NAS or any windows server 2012 server. after you add the disk space to the datastore youc an run maintenance on the servers to shrink disk space on them.
it will be a time consuming operatin though so just adding more disk space to your current datastore seems to be a quick win solution.