Hi,
the story goes like this:
On VmWare ESXi 6
1. I increased the disk space in three VMs and took a screenshot of each one.
2. I kept the screenshots because I didn't know they would keep growing.
3. Today they stopped working because of full disk space in vmdk, but it appeared like it had a lot of disk space left.
4. After some searching, found out the snapshots had gotten so big they allocated all the free space. So I decided I should delete the snapshots as they are useless to me.
5. Deleted the snapshot of the one VM and got a message that I should consolidate the disks.
6. I tried but, the consolidation failed because of insufficient disk space in the datastore.
In other words:
Before deleting the snapshot, I had ~30GB free in the VM disk, but the snapshot was 30GB itself, so no space. Now that I deleted the snapshot from snapshot manager, the disk appears to be full and I can't consolidate it.
What is your suggestion?
Thank you