This showed up on our ESXi 5.0 (where we only have ONE Virtual Machine) and there's a number of files in the datastore that I suspect are removable.
However, I certainly don't want to risk a complete failure by deleting files that shouldn't be deleted, hence this post.
Here's a listing of the files present and their size in the datastore:
Server_01.nvram, 8,48 KB, modified 5 May 2019
Server_01.vmdk, 262 144 000,00 KB, modified 17 Apr 2015
Server_01.vmsd, 1,44 KB, modified 15 Mar 2019
Server_01.vmx, 2,88 KB, modified 6 May 2019
Server_01.vmxf, 0,26 KB, modified 31 May 2018
Server_01-000001.vmdk, 2 327 552,00 KB, modified 15 May 2015
Server_01-000002.vmdk, 103 892 000,00 KB, modified 31 May 2018
Server_01-000003.vmdk, 61 604 860,00 KB, modified 15 Mar 2019
Server_01-000004.vmdk, 43 697 150,00 KB, modified 15 Mar 2019
Server_01-Snapshot3.vmsn, 27,81 KB, modified 31 May 2018
vmmcores-1.gz, 5 114,64 KB, modified 15 Oct 2015
vmmcores-2.gz, 16 672,00 KB, modified 6 May 2019
vmware.log, 30,71 KB, modified 6 May 2019
vmware-19.log, 80,31 KB, modified 31 May 2018
vmware-20.log, 112,06 KB, modified 1 Oct 2018
vmware-21.log, 81,49 KB, modified 14 Dec 2018
vmware-22.log, 133,43 KB, modified 6 May 2019
vmware-23.log, 31,05 KB, modified 6 May 2019
vmware-24.log, 30,71 KB, modified 6 May 2019
According to the VM Properties Server_01-000004.vmdk is used as the Virtual Disk.
Can I just delete any of the oldest vmdk's or are the somehow depending of each other?
The System Requirements of the disk of the server running as a VM is just 75 GB so the vmdk's seems to be very large, especially if they're dependent of each other...
Hope someone can help me with this!
BR,
Micael