Incorrect (inflated). The VMDK file size

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• The Vmdk file size

  Hello.

  I have an ESX 4.0.0 host and I created a new virtual machine on this subject, to install WIN 2003.

  When configure the virtual disk, I put the 18 GB disk and selected size space Allocate and commit on request option (thin Provisioing).

  The following steps are fine and smooth. The installation is good and VM can be saved on the local HARD disk. It could work like I want.

  In the end, I logged in the ESX sever to check how the size of the VMDK file has been generated.

  Result as below.

  $ ls - lh

  total of 9.7 G

  -rw - 1 root root 1.0 G the 31 mai 10:43 vm - 17412363.vswp

  -rw - 1 root root 17G 31 May 17:51 vm1 - flat hard

  -rw - 1 root root 8.5 K 31 mai 11:06 vm.nvram

  -rw - 1 root root 469 31 mai 10:45 vm.vmdk

  -rw - 1 root root 0 May 31 10:40 vm.vmsd

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root, 2.9 K 31 mai 10:43 vc01.vmx

  -rw - 1 root root 259 the 31 mai 10:40 vm.vmxf

  -rw - rr 1 root root 110 K 31 mai 17:18 vmware.log

  I felt that it is fake!

  Why is the total size of 9.7 GB but vm1 - flat hard file is 17 GB?

  It's over the total size. It seems strange to... isn't it?

  Then I was loggin to WIN2003 (vm) and make sure how the C drive size.

  C drive has been total 16.9 and GB 8,44 available...

  The C drive size is perhaps skirtss size. It is a good idea.

  but WHY the total size is 9.7 GB? AND tell me the breakdown of this total size of the file.

  Can someone explain to me?

  Help me ~ ~ ~

  Thank you!

  Hello!

  VM1 - flat hard is sparesefile and signals the total maximum size of the disk.

  And 9.7 total disk space used, log + swap files.

• the VMDK files are more and more and more...

  I have vmware 8.01 with two virtual machines. OS Win7 64 bit ultimate host, guests are win7 ultimate 32-bit. The first VM was created by workstation, with 80 GB of HARD drive and this virtual machine works very well, the vmdk file size is constant.

  The second was created by the virtualization of a physical machine. It has 298 GB of HARD drive. I created it three months ago, and now the size of this virtual machine is 505 Gb in the host file system. This virtual machine, called 'Prospero' has ten vmdk files:

  Prospero.VMDK 240 GB

  Prospero - 000001.vmdk 19 GB

  Prospero - 000002.vmdk Gb 116

  Prospero - 000003.vmdk 40 GB

  Prospero - 000004.vmdk 56 GB

  Prospero - 000005.vmdk 12 GB

  Prospero - 000006.vmdk 3.3 GB

  Prospero - 000007.vmdk 4.3 GB

  Prospero - 000008.vmdk 13 GB

  Prospero - 000009.vmdk 14 GB

  Yesterday, the size of the last file vmdk file was only 500 MB. It is now 14 GB.

  Initially, I set the snapshot generation and later I switch, but the growth of the size of the vmdk files continues day after day.

  Said VMWare tools: 'the fret is disabled for this virtual machine.

  What can I do to stop this more and return to the normal size of 298 GB?

  I've attached the vmx file.

  Welcome to the community,

  Initially I set the snapshot generation, and later I turned off...

  It seems that you have the "characteristic" Autoprotect is always enabled. The .vmx file still contains many entries of "RollingTier". You will need to disable Autoprotect for the virtual machine and then remove snapshots using the Snapshot Manager.

  André

• Cannot reduce the size of the VMDK file

  OK, here's my story:

  I started with the growable virtual 40 GB HD default mapped as C:\ on my virtual machine. The HD received complete and had poor performance and I converted it to a prealloue 100 GB HD. It worked OK for a while, but then I created a new virtual HD mapped as D:\ to store data.

  So my problem was C:\ was too big which made backup of the virtual machine of your time, and I thought I have to resize C:\ 30 GB. My first test was to convert it to a HD growable. This remains a 100 GB on the host vmdk file.

  Then, I used the two compacts from the GUI and stop at the command prompt on the convert HD Nope, still 100 GB vmdk file on the host.

  Then I used a disk management program to reduce the size of the c:\ partition with 30 GB and run both shrink and compact again. Guess what, the vmdk file is always 100 GB.

  I'm running out of ideas on what to do to reduce the size of the vmdk file. Any ideas?

  Yes, I did, but I used compact from the GUI and stop at the command line (vmware - vmdiskmanager.exe). At that time I didn't there's a shrink option in VMWare tools.

  In this case try to diminish with the extra partition (temporary).

  Which converter you were referring to in your previous post?

  VMware Converter Standalone 4.3

  André

• The actual size of the VMDK file

  I have a 4.0.0,208167 ESXi host and on it, to install WIN 2008, I created a new virtual machine.

  When configure the virtual disk, I put size drive 60 g and selected the option space Allocate and commit to demand (thin Provisioing) .

  The following steps are fine and smooth.  The installation is good and VM can work as I want.

  Ultimately, I have disabled this machine virtual and connected to the ESXi via vSphere Client on my laptop, with the tool of the browser data store , I found that the size of the VMDK file is about 5 G.

  So I decided to download this file to my laptop with the data store Navigator tool.  But I found that it is a problem.  Tool of the data store browser said that it would take 300 minutes to download.  And I let it run for about 20 minutes, the *- flat. VMDK file in my laptop has become more than 8 G.  I had to stop this download process.

  Why this file has become bigger than the original one?

  Can I save this 5G VMDK file in my laptop (Windows XP)?

  Thank you very much

  If you want a small export vmdk layer thin provisioned vmdk as a type "twoGbMaxExtentSparse.

  To achieve this use vmkfstools and export the current vmdk like this

  vmkfstools-i /vmfs/volumes/localdatastore/test.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/nfsdatastore/export.vmdk d 2gbsparse

  the example copies the thin test.vmdk disc put into service on the data store normal VMFS to a disk on a NFS datastore split more.

  You can also create the split inside the same directory disk - but then you still have to copy it to your target host.

  The new type vmdk you get can then be directly used with VMserver, player and Workstation

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  VMX-settings- WS FAQ -[MOAcd | http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html]- VMDK-manual

• In DatastoreBrowser vmdk file size not the same as busybox?

  Hello

  I have a few virtual machines in ESXi 4.0 U1, I installed the virtual disks as "thin" then they should grow in size, when the virtual machine is increasingly large.

  If I look at the vmdk files in the DatastoreBrowser of vSphere Client 4 is the case and I have a few files 20 GB for my Windows Server 2008 vmdk files.

  But if I look in the real file from busybox system (I use WinSCP or putty and even with Trilead VMX) then each vmdk-dish has the maximum size of 100 GB (exactly 107 GB). The vmdk file is named hard-plate here and not hard like in the DatastoreBrowser.

  If I download the file DatastoreBrowser vmdk to a Windows machine that I get a vmdk-apartment with great size and not the size specified in DatastoreBrowser.

  Surprisingly all-flat-files vmdk together (seen in WinSCP or VMX) are larger than the disk HARD Physics (500 GB).

  What is c?

  Thank you, franc

  Hello

  as said marcelo, thin discs works on the VMFS partition level. The thin disks does not exist outside of a VMFS partition.

  For example, is run you 'df - kh' you can see the real disk (distributed) of the VMFS partition space. In other words, you can see the total amount of disk space used by the thin disks of the virtual machines.

  Anyway, you turn in the busybox "ls - sh" (instead of 'ls - lh') you will see the real space of the thin virtual disk for a particular virtual machine (vmdk).

  But the problem is that tools such as winscp see the size of the disk space of the thin disks. This tools see the size of the reserved the vmdk file. Then, it copies all the file size of the disk as a thick disk. And of course, the target file system partition that will contain the thin disks, does not support thin disks.

  A thin disk with 3 GB of actual data (distributed) and a 10 GB reserved size is copied on the net by Winscp as a 10 GB drive.

  Best wishes / Saludos.

  Pablo

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• VMDK file size file size shrinkage / incorrect after cloning

  While working with VMWare on case 1159631091 support we had to clone a virtual machine that had 3 separate HD located on separate to a temporary volume volumes, then when after starting the virtual machine successfully, we have cloned virtual machine again with appropriate VMDK dating back to their original Volumes...  These volumes have been configured thin and was originally considered appropriate sizes.  Now after cloning, the volumes are showing completely full.

  Example of

  Volume 1 has a file VMDK 20 GB on a 25 GB volume and the volume shows 24.5 GB full on the SAN.  There are the 20 GB VMDK file and the file of 4 GB of Ram.

  Volume 2 has a 150 GB VMDK file on a 150 GB volume.  The data on the volume is only about 10 GB at the moment.  My SAN previously reported only usage to 10 GB and so I guess that the VMDK file suit size.

  Volume 3 has a 50 GB VMDK file on a volume of 50GB.  There are currently no data on this volume. My SAN previously reported use null.

  So I need to know if possilbe and how to boom the VMDK files to their appropriate size so that they report correctly on my SAN.

  Thank you

  You have several choices on www.vmware-land.com for shrinking vmdk.  For most use VMware Converter, use it to clone existing and increase or decrease the size of all readers and point to the destination storage systems.

  If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'useful '. Thank you!!!

  Kind regards

  Stefan Nguyen

  iGeek Systems Inc.

  VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

• What is the VMDK max size I can create on 2 TB LUN recommended?

  Hello, guys!

  I have VM DB with system files and configuration stored on a LUN and a few 2 TB LUNs, where the DB data are stored.

  2 TB LUN when I create new VMDK file that the size maximum of the VMDK file I could create?

  2 TB? 1.99 CT? 1.8 TO?

  I have to leave no space left for the needs of VMWare?

  Thank you!

  Before vSphere 5.5, the maximum virtual disk size is 2 TB less than 512 bytes. If you need create virtual maximum snapshots disk size 2 032 GB because of General fresh metadata in the snapshot file. With vSphere 5.5 and virtual machines running on the latest version of HW, virtual disks can have a size of 62 to on a VMFS5 data store.

  Basically, there is no need to leave a large amount of free disk space on a data store. However, in case you want to or need to create snapshots, remember that - from vSphere 5.0 - snapshots are by default created in the same data store as virtual disks of their parent. In addition, vSphere can store some data on the data store, for example for HA datastore heartbeats. So I would say that you leave a free space on the disk (a few GB should be ok).

  As a side note. If you go to the maximum capacity of data store, you can reconfigure the alarm of the use of the data store.

  André

• How to shrink the VMDK file?

  Hi all

  Today, I spread a hard disk to increase the size of the drive on one of the virtual machine.  Later due to required requirements is no longer the hard drive. Therefore, it is possible to remove the disc that I extended?

  Thanks in advance

  There is no way to shrink the vmdk file.

  Only create new, smaller size, replicate data and delete everything first.

  If you need temporary space then create the new disk and simply remove it when it is no longer necessary.

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  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• BlackBerry Smartphones how can I increase the maximum file size allowed on the media?

  Whenever I have record video using the video camera, after a very short time it will stop recording and gives a message 'maximum size of the file reaches. I've adjusted the settings to save in 'Normal' mode, but while recording appears in last a short time, the result file size is way too big to be able to easily send to contacts. When you use the MMS mode the recording time is much too short. Is it possible to increase the maximum allowed size of the file so that a resulting video would be about 3-4 MB or less?

  You can download any software video conversion on the net. just try this one "Freestudio".

• Please can you tell me the maximum file size by default to an attachment in the v12 case management?

  Hello

  Please can you tell me the maximum file size by default to an attachment in the v12 case management +? I am able to set a maximum size for attachments, but I'm not able to see what is the default value.

  Thank you

  Kind regards

  Anthony

  Hello

  Attachments by default max size is 8 MB.

  Kind regards.

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• When you open a photo to the Lightroom file in Photoshop the photo file size is automatically reduced. How can I fix it?

  When you open a photo to the Lightroom file in Photoshop the photo file size is automatically reduced. How can I fix it?

  misterv1 wrote:

  Example image

  3504 x 2336 @ 240 ppi JPEG original image size now the size of the image is 3504 x 2336 @ 72 dpi.

  So, in my words, your picture has not changed somehow in Photoshop. There is no sense and doesn't matter the number of ppi. The important numbers are pixels.

• flying over the vmdk files after storage vmotion

  People,

  I finished a few vmotions storage and I see that there are some vmdk files left belonging to a virtual machine by flying over in the source data store.

  Storage vmotion however was very good. Time last modified files are several months old.

  If the vmdk files are old players was dismantled some time back?

  There are also a few - zdump.000 left side files in source data warehouses. should you be worried about those?

  Rahul-

  Although I suppose the files are orphans, I always double-check for use before deleting. Virtual disk file (hard) can be changed only in case Active snapshots exist for them. What you can do is run RVTools, to see if these files appear as 'Zombies' and if so, I would say you first create a subdirectory and move the "orphans" files above and - if everything continues to work as expected - delete at a later date. Alternatively you can check the vmware.log of the virtual machine file to see if the files appear here.

  Zdump files are created if something unexpected occurs. However, it is difficult to say what the brought to be created and if they are old and have any problems, you can delete just them.

  André

• I have created a multi-page document in inDesign and exported in PDF format.  The original file size is 13.27 mb.  I used the command size reduced to 2.86 to the file to download on the internet.  However, one of the images in the original pdf file does n

  I have created a multi-page document in inDesign and exported in PDF format.  The original file size is 13.27 mb.  I used the command size reduced to 2.86 to the file to download on the internet.  However, one of the images in the original pdf file does not appear in the smaller file.  Can someone help me?

  Try the PDF tool optimize.

• VMs tie to the vmdk files

  Good afternoon guys,

  Wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction.  We have a good number of virtual machines and data warehouses can see previous admins have cloned vmdk files and not cleaned up source files.

  My question - is their an easy way to check if the vmdk files we believe was to be used in fact 100% not be used - we really want to delete something that is in use...

  Of course, we can check the settings of each virtual machine for vmdk locations and working directories but this could take a long time and I would avoid if poss.

  Thank you people.

  You can use something like RVTools (Vsante tab) and look for the hard zombie files