Virtual disk strange behaviour - please help

Hi all

I wonder if anyone can help. I started to experience a strange problem on one of my VM today.  I have a virtual machine running freenas.  The storage drives the actions of free storage to sit on are physical disks connected directly to the virtual machine and run normally, because of the way the works of freenas real HDD can be small enough and for the virtual machine, it's a prealloue virtual disk is 16 GB in size.  It is the only virtual machine sitting on a physical hard drive 256 GB. Today, I noticed a problem that the file for the virtual machine has become 240 GB in size, is probably not a normal behavior for a 16 GB VM.

I checked snapshots which he had two auto protect snapshots which I deleted and disabled auto protect. This was reported to the size of the folder up to 182 GB.

On the use of exploerer to view the folder it seems to be a large number of files, as shown below. Can someone explain if it should be there?  Also, how else remove them safely.

Thanks in advanceScreen Shot 2015-08-19 at 21.40.58.png

Thanks for the offer, but after a lot of interference and a virtual machine rebuild I managed to solve the problem.

The solution was to set the 2 drives physical independent mode with persistent active. for some reason unknown to me this seems to prevent the creation of multiple disk files, it seems workstation creates them even when there are no snapshots.

Time will tell us but seems to have solved the problems. Fingers crossed

Thanks for all the help guys.

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