I have a virtual machine on Vmware ESXI,
I have currently a defined hard disk and the size of it is :1.5 TB
But when I check the Datastore, there are 2 VMDK files which one of them (the main file of hard) have 1.3 TB size and there is another file (500 GB)
My physical space is going to be full, So I need to identify the second file which if it is used by virtual machine or not
The files names are: CL7_0.vmdk (main defined file) and CL7_1.vmdk (suspicious unused file)
How can I check if the virtual machine is using the second file?
I appreciate for any help
Best Answer
I would do this:
Performing a full backup
Check the configuration of the VM if there is really only one hard disk configured
Edit:
A virtual hard disk consists of two files. The MyVM.vmdk an MyVM-flat.vmdk file.
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