Size VMDK after snapshot

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• need to know the size of the delta.vmdk a snapshot of a virtual disk 2 TB

  Can anyone help please?

  I need to know the size of a snapshot for a virtual 2 TB drive.

  Unfortunately I can't create one myself as ESX does not create a disc of 2 TB provisioned end if the data store has only 600 GB of free space.

  If you have enough free space on your storage space can you please do me a favor?

  Create a new virtual machine with a 2 TB drive thin provisioned - when the virtual machine has been created please use snapshotmanager and create a snapshot.

  When done it please download the snapshot and zip and attach it here.

  Thank you very much

  Ulli
  
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  Indeed, that is the answer

  Home: delta to a GB 2032 thin provisioned virtual disk.

• Maximum size VMDK file

  Hi guys,.
  I know what is already online

  1. The maximum size of VMDK supported on a datastore to VMFS-5 is increased to 62 TB. However, the maximum size of VMDK supported on VMFS-3 still is 2 TB. Size maximum a VMDK on NFS support is the lesser of TB 62 and 1% less than the maximum file size supported by the NFS file system.

  However in my vSphere client, I get different information is there someone who can confirm 1000% what is the case. I use

  VMware ESXi 5.5.0 build-1746018

  VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 1

  Any info is greatly appreciated!

  

  It is planned. Although 5.5 supports max size VMDK 62TB, VI client will continue to show as 2 TB as all the new 5.5 features are supported in the Web client. If you check the same WebClient, it will certainly show 62TB VMDK as maximum size. If you want to create VMDK size more than 2 TB, you will need to use the web client. All the features up to 5.1 are fully supported by VI client.

• Copy it to a VMDk after a snapshot

  Hi all

  My apologies if some has already asked this, I did some research but couldn't find anything obvious. I have 2 x 3.5 esxi servers but both are using local storage. Unfortunately its going to take awhile before I can get a shared storage in place so I was wondering if there was a quick way to take a copy of these machines without turn off the power. Copies will not be turned on, it's just so I have a copy of the virtual machine. No VC so cloning is not available.

  If you take a snapshot of a virtual computer you're able to take a copy of the original vmdk and then instant would be engaged after a successful copy?

  I was also on the use of vmware converter to make a copy but did not know how she had to leave the original machine?

  Hope it makes sense.

  Thank you all...

  Sorry... I didn't see the 'custom' close to power off.

  If you want to make a copy of a virtual computer running?

  In this case I suggest (to have a true copy) to break (when you can), copy all files exempt vmdk files, take a snap, turn on the virtual machine and then copy only the hard and - flat.vmdk (and not the delta files).

  This way, you have a complete copy.

  Another solution is to install the converter inside the virtual machine and run a conversion, but in this case you consisten VSS copy of your virtual machine.

  André

• resize size incorrect vmdk after recovering plate

  Hello

  I got flat condition vmdk again doing stub (http://www.phdvirtual.com/wrapgen) file.

  but I am wrong, and now I have the disk with size 900 GB instead of 9 GB.

  How can I resize this disc?

  Thanks in advance

  Delete the one you generated and create another new of correct size.

• The size of the Snapshot file?

  OK, I know this is a question that has probably been asked a thousand times, but I'm still confused...

  Lets say I have a 10 GB vmdk file I took multiple snapshots. Instantane1 is/3 GB, snap2 is 6 GB and snap3 is 8 GB. I have delete all snapshots to merge them into the original vmdk.

  Snap3 merges with snap2 snap2 more, snap2 them merged with 1 instantane1 which finally merges with the vmdk origin more. I get that part, but I now see a 17 GB vmdk on the original file

  Or when 3 merges with 2 it merges only the differences between files 2 delta, then 2 does the same thing with 1 which would increase the amount of used space on the vmdk, but can not grow the overall size of the vmdk origin?

  don't forget instant not record changes on the basic disk, so when you consolidate snapshots they will make the changes on the basic disk and it won't ever larger that its size said, in your example, it would be 10 GB

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• Size reduction after export of the LR5 in image format JPEG /Formaat reductie

  After exporting my pictutes of LR 5 in format JPEG (pictures) size reduced sharply to the acceptable format of the United Nations. IE: photo 4256 x 2832, after export size is reduced to 1000 x 665 or 522 kB. This picture is not good enough to make photo albums.

  For a few months, I have had no problem at all with the sizes. 3500 x 1943 JPEG and size 2.05 MB all natural weres. What can be the reason for this negative problem?

  Nog even in het Nederlands: naar Mijn tuning of Na het i.e. van bewerkte foto ITU LR5 in JPEG is sinds kort het formaat teruggebracht naar een niet acceptabel level. Example: 4256 x 2832 wordt naar solution 1000 x 665 522 kb. Grote met fotoboek foto voor een says geen werkbaar formaat, especially omdat het eigenlijk op andere dag optrad ene van verkleiningsprobleem. Voor die tijd has een formaat van 3500 x JPEG 2.05 MB gebruikelijk 1943. IK kan niet wat ik verkeerd doe ik verkeerd gaat wat en gud. MOET er soms een page worden veranderd?

  In the export dialog box, make sure that:

  The quality is 80 or more

  Do not file size limit

  Not resize to the Fit

  I will appear one or all these are a limitation in your export to JPEG.

  

• disk size problm after copying a large file to the VM then disconnected

  Dear Sir

  I have a VM with allowances dynamic storage virtual hard drive of 300 GB,.

  HE on that disk space is 50 GB.

  Ive copied on it a 100 GB file so now space space disc is 150 GB and 150 GB is free.

  Ive deleted the file 100 GB of the virtual machine, but am supersized now that the file of the virtual machine is still 150 GB in size.

  What should do? as it fits the 50 GB after deleting the file from the virtual machine.

  Hello

  Yes it is planned.

  You have copied a huge file in the virtual computer-> who is the virtual disk in order to accommodate the new file->

  You remove the huge file-> your take off just to comments operating system, the file in the list of the directory->

  Your data is still there, it does not erase the data and rewrite from scratch.

  In order to recover the disk space, you need a number of things:

  -first of all your guests, OS file system must be supported (Windows FAT/NTFS is)

  -Your guest must be stopped

  -The type of the guest operating system disk should not be preallocated.

  -Your host operating system might need a lot of free space on the drive according to your VM disk configuration.

  If stored in several files, you must have a few GB free (size of the Ramdisk / 32) Go, but say more than 4 GB, keep 10 GB free to be on the safe side.

  If your virtual machine is stored in a single file, so you must have your used VM disk size + a few GB of free... for example. If your virtual disk is currently using 200 GB you need tell 204 GB free before starting the operation of a compact disc.

  Then in the configuration of VMware go into settings of virtual machines:

  

  Use the 'Compact disc' button.

  Be very very patient and wait, because you want to get 100GB which will take some time.

  --

  Wil

• Recommendation for size VMDK for IO Analyzer test vsan

  Hello

  Is there a size Analyzer IO Vmware VMDK recommendation? When deploy you from the model of the test is performed on the second disc of 100 MB. I saw a few recommendations to remove this second disc and add a great new.

  Analyzer 01-100MB on disk, I get 12000 IOPS / s, 45 Mbit/s on a random test of 4k_70% read_80%.

  Analyzer 02-100 GB drive, I have 1300 iops, 5 Mbps on a random test of 4k_70% read_80%.

  Caching is disabled on all drives and controllers (HP P420i). 3 x HP DL380 (200SSD, 5 x 900 10kSAS).

  I'm surprised the difference that both drives should reach the 200 GB ssd. Or analyzers from writing to disks are formatted with any FS. Obviously, the second machine with the largest disk not reading so that lower iops cache hits is but I don't know why, as are big enough SSDS.

  Thank you

  Remember, VSAN is all about having your work in cache, so that most of the readings reached the level of flash cache.

  It seems that monitor 1 with 100MB is mainly in the cache, while 2 parser is not.

  We are working on a guideline that the working set of an application is usually 10% of its capacity. It is sometimes more, sometimes less is, but 10% is a generally accepted rule.

  I don't know how the Analyzer has been configured, but it is the workload it contains repeated data profiles, while some cached data can be read?

  If this is not the case, this may mean that you are simply fill the SSD write buffer, it disabling the disk rotation when it reaches a particular threshold, then fill again. This means that you are bound by disk magnetic performance and get very little by way of benefit from caching layer of VSAN.

  Things to look at:

  1. is Analyzer using 100 GB just like its working set, and cela will reflect your production workloads? If this isn't the case, reduced to a size that is the reflection of a real production working together? If most of your VMS use 100 GB VMDK, consider a set of 10 GB size work.

  2 Analyzer uses patterns to repeat? If not, configure it to do this, or use another tool of reference that makes.

  HTH

  Cormac

• Ask - what is the best way to merge multiple vmdk with snapshot

  Hello

  kindly help me.

  I created the guest with vmware workstation system 9, with split vmdk and contain snapshots.

  I want to apply the latest snapshot on the virtual disk as a modified permanent, so I want to convert this virtual disk to a single virtual disk.

  is this possible? in the affirmative. kindly guide me How to with detail. Thanks in advance.

  Find the file myguest.vmdk and run one of the following command;

  VMware-diskmanager - r myguest.vmdk t 0 myguestmerged.vmdk (for the single end drive)

  VMware-diskmanager - r myguest.vmdk t 2 myguestmerged.vmdk (for the single thick disc)

  See an example here: fusion Fusion/workstation virtual disk VMware Split in a single VMDK | artykul8

• Reduce the size VMDK

  How can we reduce size of VMDK in ESXi 5

  Can directly without power VM off-> change settings and reduce the size of vmdk by entering a value in the column size of VMDK?

  Please suggest...

  No, unfortunately this is not possible. This would require ESXi be aware of the installed guest OS, its file system and partitioning, in order to adjust the partitions to the size reduction. To reduce the size of virtual disk, you can use. for example, VMware Converter.

  André

• What to expect for the size of the snapshot?

  General question here regarding size captures instant vmware (or indeed any what clichés really).

  In an effort to ask the question here is a very basic example:

  If I had a 10 GB VM and I take a snapshot; the first snapshot will be close to zero.  So now let's say I leave this for a week and during that week snapshot, the virtual machine sees 2 GB of file system changes.

  The snapshot will be then 2 GB in size?

  If I drop the snapshot of another week and the VM sees 1 GB another change of files (deletes, adds, changes) the snapshot will be then 3GB in size?

  Thank you

  Yes, it's operation of snapshots in VMware products. The virtual disk parent is treated as read-only and go to all the changes to the snapshot drive (delta file). Please take a look at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180 which explains this in detail.

  André

• Reduce the size of the snapshot

  Hi all

  I use VMWare 7 and have a virtual machine that is a series of snapshots. The OS is Linux (RHEL).

  I use this to install an Oracle database. I need to the virtual machine at an earlier stage, so I went back to capture instant, deleted what I and I have now to the fret.

  I can't do this because it's a snapshot. What are my options, I ran out of space on the disk hard part is this VM on.

  Thank you

  Alex

  your only option is to make a full clone of the current state, you are interested.
  Then, you can reduce the vmdk - there is no way to reduce the snapshots

• What is the average size of a snapshot for the size of the virtual machine?

  I'm curisous if there is an average size, percentage wise, a snapshot by report to it's other virtual machine files.  Anyone?

  I am trying to gage how much space I need in their housing. Also if I can't stand instant in the same directory as the rest of virtual machine files, how I would Flash a different data store?

  Basically, snapshots start at zero and increase when they are used. Snapshots should be very short term and therefore should not become large.

  Snapshots
  Best practices http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1025279
  Understanding http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180

• Resize the fixed size VMDK

  Im trying to resize a vmhd. I know that I have to convert it into a new vmhd to do. Ive been looking for a little while and got a good idea on how to do it, but something must be wrong in my syntax.

  Here's what I have.

  C:\Virtual Machines\VM1 > "c:\Program VMware Server\vmware - vdiskmanager.exe ', VM1.vmdk - r t 2 s 14 GB VM1_reduced.vmdk

  what I think is the syntax to convert a fixed disk of VM1.vmdk (t 2), size 14 GB, new name for VMDK

  but when I run, there is the original size which is about 16 GB. (Yes there is free space available in the host which is a windows Server 2003 OS)

  Any thoughts?

  Ahh... you can not reduce the defined maximum size of a virtual disk with vmware-vdiskmanager (or any other VMware tool, in fact).  You must create a new virtual disk and ghost/clone the existing drive, on another; then replace the original with the new disk in your virtual machine.