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We had a virtual server fail to boot up properly this morning as there was no more space left on the virtual disc.<br />
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The host was restarted and the virtual server restarted with no problems.<br />
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We did note that the HDD on the virtual machines pointed to a new location in the data store (See Attached)<br />
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Can we delete the original file (Dated November 2014) or will this affect the virtual machine?<br />
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We had a virtual server fail to boot up properly this morning as there was no more space left on the virtual disc.

The host was restarted and the virtual server restarted with no problems.

We did note that the HDD on the virtual machines pointed to a new location in the data store (See Attached)

Can we delete the original file (Dated November 2014) or will this affect the virtual machine?

VMWare - duplicate vmdisk appears in datastore following the host being rebooted

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.