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![]() (I was hoping that merging snapshots would decrease in size as the consolidation progressed.) The VMware blog link is excellent - I hadn't stumbled across that during my frantic search for info. ![]() Supaplex you have confirmed my worst fears - that the consolidation process should really have the same amount of space again to work with as the sum total of the snapshots. Hi Folks, sorry for the delayed response and thanks so much for your prompt replies. I really hope somebody can help clarify this for me. When consolidate starts does it need just the difference free between delta1 & delta2, i.e 118gb to work with? Will it free up that space again once merged? Or does it need the same space again as itself, i.e 274gb?įor simplicity: If I have a base vmdk of 400gb plus snapshots of 200 & 300gb, on a host with 250gb free, how do I calculate how much maximum free space is required to consolidate? ![]() What I suppose I am trying to understand is just how much space is used when the consolidation begins?įor example, disk_2-flat.vmdk (base disk) is 424gb, delta1 (snapshot) is 274gb & delta2 is 392gb. these vms to.ĭc vm has three disks all thin-provisioned (see attached s-shot for file sizes) Really can't free any more space right now and, before anyone suggests it, I don't have anywhere to move or backup or vMotion or. and now need to run consolidate on dc vm. So, here I am with the sql vm sorted, data backups ok, as much space on host freed as I can. ![]() I tried this once already and it promptly filled my datastore and unceremoniously dumped me out of the servers. On win dc ran delete snapshot but it's now saying consolidation required. Have managed to get sql server tidied, snapshot deleted and booting ok. There was also an sql log file which had grown ridiculously large - but that's for another time. Old snapshots were not deleted when they should have been a long time ago. The question is: How much free space is needed on an vmware datastore to successfully run the disk consolidation? How does one calculate it given base vmdk & snapshot sizes - in other words, how much space does the consolidation process use?ĮSXi 6.5. ![]() I am hoping one of you guys can tell it to me in a way that I will finally get it. Before I begin, I have researched the hell out of this over the last couple of (long) days and I can't find a definitive answer - a simple answer, like a formula. ![]()
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