[AusNOG] VMWare Snapshot / Delta VMDK removal

[Burt Mascareigne]

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. 



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



-----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

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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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