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Is this VMware or Hyper-V?<br><br>Check and see if there are any snapshots/checkpoints on any of the VMs. That is the usual culprit for high storage usage.<br><br>Remove them.
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Is this VMware or Hyper-V?

Check and see if there are any snapshots/checkpoints on any of the VMs. That is the usual culprit for high storage usage.

Remove them.

Senior Technical Architect - HA/Compute/Storage

Philip Elder

Network Administrator

DP230

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Hi Philip, it is VMware.<br><br>@Andrew: if so, when I clone the VM, I have to prepare the destination 's storage size, dont I? How can I estimate the total size? Or just the sum of all snapshots and base disks?
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Hi Philip, it is VMware.

@Andrew: if so, when I clone the VM, I have to prepare the destination 's storage size, dont I? How can I estimate the total size? Or just the sum of all snapshots and base disks?

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CLONE the VM you will just need the same storage space as the VM without snapshot eg parent disk size<br />
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Have a read of 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>
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CLONE the VM you will just need the same storage space as the VM without snapshot eg parent disk size

Have a read of my EE Article

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

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<em>"As you Delete the Snapshot, it will use up SAN storage, until the process is completed, and the original file is removed.<br>&nbsp;If you think about it you have a 7TB parent disk, and a snapshot size of x GB/TB ? &nbsp;all those changes need to be written into <strong>a new parent disk of 7TB</strong>, and then the old parent removed,. "</em><br><br>So we need total of 14 TB in current datastore in case of consolidate? how can I check if I can delete the additional 2 TB by somehow? as I canceled the consolidate process when it stuck at 1%
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"As you Delete the Snapshot, it will use up SAN storage, until the process is completed, and the original file is removed.
 If you think about it you have a 7TB parent disk, and a snapshot size of x GB/TB ?  all those changes need to be written into a new parent disk of 7TB, and then the old parent removed,. "

So we need total of 14 TB in current datastore in case of consolidate? how can I check if I can delete the additional 2 TB by somehow? as I canceled the consolidate process when it stuck at 1%


Dear EEs, my SAN storage is filling up very quickly. From the 09th July; I run a consolidate disk of a problematic VM (about 7TB in size) and I stopped the process last hour. I'm not sure if the consolidate involved here? Can you kindly suggest to reduce the store's size?
Dark green: store's capacity (11 TB)
Red: used space by VMs

SAN storage's size increase strangely

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