Unique virtual MACHINE fills physical drive twice the size of the virtual disk allocated

I have a VMware workstation 8 that is configured with a 600GO of (non-allocated in advance) disc. Workstation 8 is running on Server 2008 R2. The virtual machine has filled a 1.28 TB drive full of files hard VMware with the naming convention "VIRTUAL_MACHINE_NAME-000001 - s001.vmdk" that increments until completely to "VIRTUAL_MACHINE_NAME-000014 - s301.vmdk.

I also have 14 snapshots. What I find interesting is that I have 14 snapshots and then my files hard increment from 000001 to 000014, so I kind of think that each snapshot file (.vmem) is attached to each set of files hard. Before delete those associated with the shots that I need is no longer, I wanted to check that they are in fact attached together.

My proposed remedy strategy would be a snapshot of delete (say 12) and delete all the files in VIRTUAL_MACHINE_NAME-000012 - sxxx.vmdk.

I understand this well, that doesn't sound like it will work?

Welcome to the community,

I understand this well, that doesn't sound like it will work?

No, never remove all hard files manually!

The snapshots see you in the Snapshot Manager associated with the files (00000 x) and once you delete a snapshot in the Snapshot Manager, the data in these files are merged into their parent folder. For example if you delete snapshot 9, data will be merged in 8 snapshot, so most probably more these snapshot files. If you want to save disk space, you must delete the snapshots starting with the left-(closest to the basic disk).

André

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