Inconsistency of VMstorage of free space.

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My client (running ESX3.5) was to stop and restart a virtual machine, but it wouldn't start. He complained with a message: msg.hbacommon.outofspace: there is no more space for redo log

When I looked at the parameters of the disk for the virtual machine that would not start, he showed a disk 150 GB and 241 GB Max size. I put it to 230 GB on the virtual machine, but it has not increased the capacity and now my Max went from 241G to 0GB. The VMstorage shows only 3 GB of free space.  After I did I noticed that we had left some shots. (Bad practice I know.) The shots were taken before an upgrade of the software several months ago and I forgot to remove them. I posted a delete all snapshots to consolidate the vmdk files and it took several hours, but he had completed. However, this does not affect free space, which indicates that I have only 3 GB free. I then went through the files of the virtual machine that wouldn't start and I noticed it had duplicated the flat vmdk file, which was about 157 GB. I deleted the one not in use but still no change in free space but at least the VM has started. How can I solve this problem of free space?

The total size of the VM storage is 556,75 Go. There are only 2 virtual machines on this host. If you total all files for VM1 it adds up to 276GB, VM2 adds up to 156GB. There are 133 ~ GB which should be free.

Also, I noticed that even if I deleted all snapshots, I still multiple vmdk files.

Thank in advance for any help.

If you do not have a snapshot in the Snapshot Manager, they cannot be properly cleaned.  Try to go into the Manager of shapshot, to create a new snapshot.  When it's done.  Delete all snapshots.  Who should start a cleansing process, and delete all of your photos for this virtual machine.

-KjB

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