Hi there,
I'm looking for a bit of advice. We're a SMB with 2 ESXi hosts and 5 virtual machines. The last few days, we've had loads of issues with our entire network coming to a standstill. We eventually found this to be excessive disk usage by one of the VM's, it seemed as if ESXi was trying to consolidate snapshots automatically - the issue being, there is no snapshots. Anyway, we kept cancelling the task as it was bringing our network to a halt, and so I decided to force consolidate it Saturday morning and let it continue over the weekend.
I've checked on it today, and it has stopped as the data-store is at 100%, ESXi has also shut down some VM's. Now, before we started the consolidation, there was no snapshots in snapshot manager and datastore was at 42%, It's a 1TB disk.
The VMDK file for the VM has jumped from around 200GB to 600GB+.
I'm really stuck as I don't know how to reduce this and get the VM back online, it's our SQL machine and we cant run business without it, unfortunately our last Veeam backup was last week so can't really restore that to another host without loosing a week's data.
Any ideas?
Kindest regards,
Reece.