Running esxi5.0.1 with the latest patches. VM is running windows 2008 Server standard, C: = 80GB, D:=200GB Both THIN Provisioned (why is water under the bridge).
Anyway, there were two snapshots on this VM. While putting data on the D: drive, the drive was ran out of space and the VM froze and displayed a Cancel or Retry dialogue. I tried Retry, but no success. So while the machine was down, i deleted the snapshots. that was successful in the GUI, but when i look at the datastore, the snaps are still there. I tried to start the VM again, but i keep getting "A general system error occurred. The virtual machine could not start".
The c: drive still has space and i could likely attach it to a new VM and get some critical data off, but i'm really concerned about getting data off the D: drive with the snapshot files still out on the datastore if i try to attach it to a functioning VM. Here is a pic of the datastore for the VM.
Any good ideas here? i just need the data at this point, but i would be very happy to recover the VM.
thanks!
Jason