I do not understand the vmdk files.
I have vmware workstation 7.1 running on Window 7. I have a Windows 7 client running under the workstation. The directory containing the Win7 VM is over 200GB! For the life of me I can not figure out why and more importantly how to reduce it. It is continuing to grow and I am almost out of harddrive space on the host.
Some of the relevant info on the client are:
Memory = 2048M
Processors 1
Harddrive (IDE): Current size = 46.6 GB, System free: 26.9 GB, Maximum size 596.2 GB.
I currently show two snap shots.
In the host's folder(directory) for this VM I see vmem and vmsn snap shot files with dates that match the snap shots displayed in the snapshot manager. They contain the words "Snapshot8" and "Snapshot13" in the filenames so I assume those are for those snapshots and they are #8 and #13.
But it is three .vmdk files that are the big ones.
Please can anyone help me figure how to shrink this monsters?
Mike
Below is a listing of the directory contents:
C:\Users\Mike\Documents\Virtual Machines\Mike-Win7-VM1>dir /n
Volume in drive C is OS
Volume Serial Number is 7C4E-86D4
Directory of C:\Users\Mike\Documents\Virtual Machines\Mike-Win7-VM1
10/10/2014 12:52 PM <DIR> .
10/10/2014 12:52 PM <DIR> ..
10/10/2014 12:07 PM 2,147,483,648 564d81bf-ed4e-65d6-7286-6b3bcd18f9fd.vmem
10/10/2014 12:07 PM <DIR> 564d81bf-ed4e-65d6-7286-6b3bcd18f9fd.vmem.lck
10/24/2011 03:30 PM <DIR> caches
10/10/2014 12:08 PM 50,647,138,304 Mike-Win7-VM1-000002.vmdk
10/10/2014 12:07 PM <DIR> Mike-Win7-VM1-000002.vmdk.lck
05/07/2014 07:55 AM 51,001,622,528 Mike-Win7-VM1-000004.vmdk
10/10/2014 12:07 PM <DIR> Mike-Win7-VM1-000004.vmdk.lck
02/19/2014 03:21 PM 2,147,483,648 Mike-Win7-VM1-Snapshot13.vmem
02/19/2014 03:19 PM 170,515,294 Mike-Win7-VM1-Snapshot13.vmsn
05/09/2012 08:04 AM 2,147,483,648 Mike-Win7-VM1-Snapshot8.vmem
05/09/2012 08:04 AM 214,696,250 Mike-Win7-VM1-Snapshot8.vmsn
05/07/2014 06:30 AM 114,296,422,400 Mike-Win7-VM1.vmdk
10/10/2014 12:07 PM <DIR> Mike-Win7-VM1.vmdk.lck
10/10/2014 12:02 PM 928 Mike-Win7-VM1.vmsd
10/10/2014 01:18 PM 3,932 Mike-Win7-VM1.vmx
10/10/2014 12:52 PM <DIR> Mike-Win7-VM1.vmx.lck
11/07/2013 02:43 PM 268 Mike-Win7-VM1.vmxf
10/10/2014 12:02 PM 8,684 nvram
10/10/2014 12:04 PM 916,296 vmware-0.log
08/29/2014 05:27 PM 580,844 vmware-1.log
07/14/2014 04:16 PM 150,211 vmware-2.log
10/10/2014 12:07 PM 153,903 vmware.log
16 File(s) 222,774,660,786 bytes
8 Dir(s) 28,237,348,864 bytes free