[AusNOG] VMWare Snapshot / Delta VMDK removal

[Daniel Watson]

Have a QNAP. So moved the pagefile’s to an ISCIS target. And then removed all the Delta’s

Freed up 268gb which has allowed the Veeam backups to run

Daniel

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> On 20 Nov 2017, at 8:09 am, Burt Mascareigne <Burt at stormnetwork.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I feel like you dodged a bullet there.
> 
> If you were not able to shut it down, then get a NAS or some device and clone to it at least that will give you a slimmed down clean version. 
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> Regards,
>  
> 
> Burt Mascareigne
> Mobile 0414 450 962   Office (02) 9965 5422
> Address Level 19, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney NSW 2000
> Web http://www.stormnetwork.com.au
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Watson
> Sent: Sunday, 19 November 2017 10:23 PM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] VMWare Snapshot / Delta VMDK removal
> 
> Thanks to all those fantastic people who have responded
> 
> I have powered off this particular VM for the time being. And have recovered 35gb in swapfile
> 
> I have taken a new successful snapshot. Which then allowed me to delete “all” snapshots. Including those old delta files.  This will take a few hours to complete. But then should give me back 100gb of space
> 
> Appreciate all the assistance. I’ll keep you posted how it goes tomorrow
> 
> Daniel
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On 19 Nov 2017, at 9:47 pm, Daniel Watson <dgwatson1988 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry to bother the list but this is critical
>> 
>> Wanted to know from others. If it is safe to remove a delta VMDK file from a running vm?
>> 
>> A server I am now looking after is running out of space like no tomorrow. And there are 3 delta VMDK ‘s taking up 80gb of space
>> 
>> Any information would be appreciated
>> 
>> Daniel
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