Incompatibility of the use of data store

Hi all

I have a Lab Manager installation with about 2 TB of data warehouses is attributed to the. Comparing the use of the disc between du-sh and view on the use of the data store through the Lab Manager user interface, I see two completely different characters. I don't know what is to consume all of my space. Cleaning of garbage is the default value of 120 seconds.

du-HS exit

865G datastore_14/labmanhost

259G datastore_19/labmanhost

396G datastore_20/labmanhost

That's what I see in the GUI. Show 103 VM remaining to use 0 MB.

To scramble even more, if I look at my models some show that the use of 0 MB, but these have a 20 GB drive (and even more so because of the length of the chain caused by changing the template after the initial release it).

Can someone explain what is consuming my drive?

Thank you

Then use the 'View Datastore use' page, press the button "Refresh disk space" at the top of this page.  Virtual machines with the length of the string of 0 indicate that you probably did not recently.

As you probably know, Lab Manager stores its virtual machines as linked clones.  Each virtual machine is based on several VMDK which are dependent on each other, and multiple virtual machines can share nodes. Lab Manager cleans up the tree, the removal of nodes, it can through an asynchronous garbage collection process.  Any node with dependencies is not removed until these dependencies are removed.

The column that you are using is 'Disk space after deletion', not space total disk used by this node.  Values are often zero because if a node a VM dependent, it is not cleaned when its deleted memory.  He doesn't want not to say that it does no disk space - sound suffice it to say that you will free all disk space if you delete it.

For a better visibility of these dependencies, the mouse in the virtual machine and choose 'background '.  This will display the chain dependent records graphically, and as you mouse over nodes, you will see some information about them such as their size.  Note that not all nodes are "visible" in the application (except in this context point of view).  Only virtual machines with borders "BOLD" from this point of view can be displayed in Lab Manager (in the space to work, a configuration library or library templates).

Steven

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