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How to reclaim space of Local Storage on XenServer 6.1

Hi Experts,

I have a Xenserver 6.1 hypervisor running 3 virtual servers on it. The total disk capacity on the Xenserver is 1.6Tb.

The total disk capacity of all 3 virtual servers equates to 500Gb.

Having a look at local storage on this XenServer it is currently reading:

Usage - 97% (1626.9Gb used)
Size - 1667.1Gb
Virtual Allocation - 106.5Gb

I don't understand why its saying that the usage is at 97% when I'm clearly using less than 50% of the disk capacity
when adding up all 3 virtual servers.

Can someone please explain and show me what I need to do to reclaim this space?

Many Thanks

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Mohammed Khawaja

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markbenham

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Hi Mohammed,

Thanks for your response.

>> Could you run XenCenter and see how large each disk assigned to VMs are

The total assigned to all 3 VMs equates to 500Gb

>> Do you have any snapshots that can be deleted

I've deleted all snapshots but kept 1. Does the snapshot take much space? It doesn't show how much space the snapshot takes.

>> Have you created a repository for keeping your ISO files

I've now removed CIFS ISO Library

Unfortunately its still the same. It is still showing 97% usage in XenCenter.

Is there anything else I could try or see what is taking up all the space?

Many Thanks

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This is because I had to wait to see what will happen and fortunately after waiting it worked.