Hello Community,
here is the problem: One of our most important servers (Windows 2008 R2, Exchange 2010) got a software update, so we used snapshots, which where deleted right after the update went smothly.
Now, a while later, I saw that the 000002.vmdk-file is still around and still referenced when I check the properties of the vm.
So, this has been going on unrecognized for some time now, the server has 3 virtual HDDs, two of which have those snapshotfiles, one is 25GB and the other short to 50GB.
I have been digging around the internet for quite some time now, and so far the only solution I found was to create a new snapshot and then chose "delete all" from the snapshot manager. Thus commiting all snapshot files at once.
Luckily, we still have some 700GB space on that volume, but I am not so sure about this procedure. With snapshots of this size, there could be a timeout (I think this was what happend the first time) or something else. When this server goes boom we have a problem. (of course there is a backup, but I am no Exchange Admin and that guy is on vacation, murphy...)
You think this is a good idea? Any other ideas?
Oh, our Environment:
vCenter 4.1 345043
ESXi 4.1 582267
Kindest regards,
Thomas