File exchange and space on the C drive

This is going to be a long post, but I don't want to miss any detail that could help someone help me.

Let me start by saying that I am extremely new to VMWare and virtual machines in general.  I built a few small machines, but I wasn't quite sure what I was doing and just followed the instructions that I was given.

My manager is currently outside but in his absence, I was responsible for creating a few new machines.  I couldn't understand why I had always set the size of the benefit is less than the total available on the data store size until I read on the pagefile.  I understand now that a swap file will seize the same amount of space as the amount of RAM that you specify for the machine, unless you reserve memory.

The problem I have is that I was told to put in place a disk of 40 GB with 32 GB of RAM.  As the Windows operating system I install occupies about 10 GB, it is are not enough space to fill it.  To resolve this problem, I have increased the size of the data on the amount of RAM store.  So to have a 40GB C: drive, but allow for 32 GB of RAM, I put the size of the data store ~ 72GB and 40 GB provisioned.  The machine has started and installed the operating system and I thought things were fine until I checked the size of the C: drive after installation and it told me there was only 1 GB or more of space.  I was expecting it to be about 30 GB.  I rebooted the machine to update some independent settings and when the machine came back I had 22 GB, 40 GB free on my C: drive.  It's still less than what I expected, but I don't know what exactly happened to release 21GB.

Here's the process I use to create this virtual machine.  If someone could take some time to look into this and let me know what I am missing I would really, really appreciate it.

1.) create a virtual drive of 74 GB on the SAN and introduce him to the ESXI host

2.) log in to the host with vSphere Client

3.) configuration-> Add-> storage

(a.) disk/LUN

(b) VMFS-5

(c.) maximum available space

4.) new virtual machine...

(b) storage: 74 GB datastore, I created

(c.) VM Version: 5

(d.) guest operating system: Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)

e.) CPUs: 4 taken virtual

f.) memory: 32 GB

g.) network: VMNetwork

h.) to create a floppy: = 40 GB, zero thickness stocked lazy virtual disk size

This will start the machine and I will install the OS, but as I said, when he finished there's hardly any space left on the C drive.  I don't know there's something brutally obvious that I'm missing here, but I appreciate any help.

In this spirit, the vm swap stored in space not configured as I initially thought?

Sorry for the confusion. Yes you are right, it is certainly also swap file of the virtual machine that is on the VMFS data store. In my first post, I was referring only to the pagefile on the guest, because I realized that the guest operating system installation was your major issue.

André

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