VMWare Disk Full
Hi
I have a ESXi Host V 6 running with 4 virtual servers.
One of the servers will not start as it says the allocated disk size is full. I cannot even restart it in Safe Mode.
I have tried to increase the disk size as the VM Client says there is still 175Gb of unallocated space. But if i try and extend the disk it says it is full.
These are not thin installs
How do i get onto the Virtual Server to delete some files?
I have a ESXi Host V 6 running with 4 virtual servers.
One of the servers will not start as it says the allocated disk size is full. I cannot even restart it in Safe Mode.
I have tried to increase the disk size as the VM Client says there is still 175Gb of unallocated space. But if i try and extend the disk it says it is full.
These are not thin installs
How do i get onto the Virtual Server to delete some files?
John Tsioumpris
How about using a bootable Linux/WinPE cd image in order to get the VM disk mounted and then handle it...
You will need to inspect the datastore if the datastore storage is full ?
do you have any snapshots on the datastore which could be deleted ?
do you have any snapshots on the datastore which could be deleted ?
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I dont have any snap shots available. I have rebooted the Host Server and it is registering that there is only 45Gb free space available. However, i sill cannot allocate this within the Edit Settings for the Terminal Server as it says there is no additional space.
Can you screenshot the disk settings ?
if you only have 45GB available on the datastore, you should not use it all, and make sure you reserve 20%.
When you power on a VM, it creates a swap file equal to memory assigned in the VM.
if you only have 45GB available on the datastore, you should not use it all, and make sure you reserve 20%.
When you power on a VM, it creates a swap file equal to memory assigned in the VM.
From the description it clearly shows that this is thin provisioned disk to the client but at the same time you cannot expand the disk as datastore is full.
You don't require to get into VM but need to free up space on the datastore. You might not be able to move or consolidate VM if datastore have zero space.
These are the steps you can do to fix:-
1# Move few VM's out of the datastore to get some space.
2# Delete the snapshots of you have on any VM on the datastore.
3# IF you have zero space on datastore, you still can get some by deleting vmware.logs and consolidate.
4# Increase the datastore space (Depends on what datastore you have its have different resolution)
5# clone the VM to different datastore, this will automatically consolidate VM also.
You don't require to get into VM but need to free up space on the datastore. You might not be able to move or consolidate VM if datastore have zero space.
These are the steps you can do to fix:-
1# Move few VM's out of the datastore to get some space.
2# Delete the snapshots of you have on any VM on the datastore.
3# IF you have zero space on datastore, you still can get some by deleting vmware.logs and consolidate.
4# Increase the datastore space (Depends on what datastore you have its have different resolution)
5# clone the VM to different datastore, this will automatically consolidate VM also.
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