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

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