Hi all,
I have a question regarding the below.
We have a fairly large VM (2 disks, with the main disk being around 250GB). The server works fine, but when browsing the datastore, looking at the VMDK files, it looks like it has split the VMDK files into many smaller files - there are around 10 of them, of varying sizes but all around the 20GB mark). There is also one file which is "roughly" the same size as the 250GB disk.
Also, when looking at the settings of this VM with regards to the disks, it's referencing one of the smaller files as it's data drive. The files are named as below:
ServerA-00000014.vmdk
ServerA-00000015.vmdk
ServerA-00000016.vmdk
Does anyone know what going on here? I had a thought that it might be snapshot files (?) or files relating to the snapshot process (?). The reasoning on that, is at the moment, i'm not able to create a snapshot or delete a snapshot. On both processes it gets to 95% of the status bar and then times out. When a snapshot is being created ot deleted the server stops responding during the entire process and then kicks back into life when i get the error message of it timing out.
Any thoughts?
Many thanks in advance for any help given.