Hi everyone,
I tried contacting support, but they said that I can only get help through VMWare Communities or by purchasing a support incident. So I tried to purchase a support incident, but the department is closed!!! I need help ASAP, as my guest server crashed. I got it temporarily up and running by deleting a 2 GB ISO file that I had saved on the datastore, but I'm afraid it will crash again soon.
I'm running ESXi 5.5.0. Last night the server crashed and I determined that the physical host ran out of space in the datastore. See the attached screen shot. Browsing the datastore, I see four VMDK files and two VWSP files, along with numerous logs and other file types. The VMDKs are the largest, by far. However, I have only two virtual disks in the guest configuration:
servername.vmdk (420 GB)
servername_1.vmdk (420 GB)
The datastore browser also shows these two files:
servername-000003.vmdk
servername_1-000003.vmdk
These latter two files, with the -000003 in the name, are not enormous (20 GB for one and 4 GB for the other), though they display a provisioned size of 420 GB each. What are these files? Do they represent some sort of "undo" log which can be deleted?
I should mention that I'm totally unfamiliar with snapshots, how to use them or manage them, though as I now look at Snapshot Manager in my console, it shows that there are no snapshots for this VM. Also, I use Acronis for VMWare for my backup solution. As the name suggests, it is VM-aware, so this may have something to do with the disk space usage.
Any help appreciated. As indicated, this is an emergency situation for me.
Thank you,
Brad