Hello,
some days ago i set up virtual machine with 2 Hard disks and installed Windows Server 2019.
one 200GB for the Windows Server 2019
and a 2.1TB for Data mapped to Drive F: currently 200MB Data and 1,8TB Free diskspace
Today i got a Error Message in web ui (in german...i switched to englisch for the next time this error pops up...so i have to translate..:-| )
"These is not enough disk space for the virtual Harddisk 'vmfs/volumes/........./Windows Sever 2019...vdmk) availabe.
and the Windows Server makes trouble (long response times and so on...) and the ESXi OS becomes non responisve
when i look at the cli a df -h shows
...
VMFS-6 2.2T 2.2T 9.0M 100% /vmfs/volumes/Daten
...
and the following files in /vmfs/volumes/Daten
-rw------- 1 root root 340 Mar 4 12:53 Windows Server 2019_2-000001.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 461 Feb 10 08:38 Windows Server 2019_1.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 465 Feb 20 08:49 Windows Server 2019_2.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 10.4G Mar 4 13:20 Windows Server 2019_2-000001-sesparse.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 40.0G Feb 10 08:38 Windows Server 2019_1-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 2.1T Feb 20 15:26 Windows Server 2019_2-flat.vmdk
the ....sesparse.vmdk seems to bee the snapshot i created.
what causes this enourmous flat.vdmk files? What is the Problem?