Probability of success of 3 to capture instant removal if system itself takes about 3 TB and he left only about 70 GB of space on the VMFS5 partion (vSphere 5.1)

Hello.

I have a problem... Computer virtual located on the storage VMFS5 vSphere 5.1 partition has 3 files vmdk (1 for each partition of data under windows 2008 server, ~ 1 TB each). There were snapshot taken by this system, which currently used almost all of the space available on the storage partition. I need to remove this snapshot, it is no longer necessary, but he doubts if there is enough free space left on that partition to detele instant (~ 70 GB on the left). I would be able remove snapshot or I get this operation migrate VM to a different data store VMFS5 with more space to this topic?

It depends on whether the virtual disks are provisioned thin or thick. With thin configured virtual disks you will probably not be able to delete snapshots, because basic disks may develop. However, with thick, configured virtual disks basic disks will be will develop not just yet, so delete the snapshots should work without problems with the virtual machine off! Remove the snapshot with a virtual machine under tension will create snapshots of assistance, which will develop according to the activity of the virtual machine and cause a problem of out-of-disk space.

André

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