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VMWARE ESXI 5.5 There is no more space for Virtual Disk

Posted by Ewin D.

Hey Folks,

One of my busy VMs stopped working this morning and a pop-up error reads:

"There is no more space for virtual disk VMONEX-00001.vmdk. You might be able to continue the session by freeing disk space on the relevant volume. etc etc etc"

I used WinSCP to delete all .log files EXCEPT vmware.log in that directory. VM came back up and operational again. There were 3 .log files each 2GB or more .

How do i prevent these logs from going crazy? Do i have to turn off some stuffs in Vmware? This is a 3-year old HP Proliant with limited physical HDD storage. What do you do to have your log files size under control?

Ewin D.

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2GB for a log file is nothing. Remember that when you create a VM, you need space in the datastore for the VMDK and the RAM.

So, if you have a VM with 40GB of disk and 8GB of RAM then the absolute minimum in the datastore is 50GB - VMDK plus RAM plus system files like the VMX.

Check that none of your VM's have old snapshots that are eating space or consider larger hard drives.

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Honestly, if you're running your datastores that low on space I'd focus on that, not on how to keep the log sizes down.
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2GB for a log file is nothing. Remember that when you create a VM, you need space in the datastore for the VMDK and the RAM.

So, if you have a VM with 40GB of disk and 8GB of RAM then the absolute minimum in the datastore is 50GB - VMDK plus RAM plus system files like the VMX.

Check that none of your VM's have old snapshots that are eating space or consider larger hard drives.
Ewin D. wrote:

"There is no more space for virtual disk VMONEX-00001.vmdk. You might be able to continue the session by freeing disk space on the relevant volume. etc etc etc"

That sounds like a snapshot. You really need to check to see how many VM's have snapshots and get rid of them because they shouldn't be kept around plus they'll just eat disk space.
delete the snapshot or consolidate.
Thanks for pointing me to the right direction! Found couple of old snapshots. Getting rid of those now. one at a time
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