Hi. I want to describe my scenario and i hope that someone could tell me what i did wrong, because i could not see why there was no more space on the storage.
I have created a vm with 2 partitions, the OS partition 60 GB and the data partition with 650 GB. The storage capacity is 1000 GB.
On that vm i have installed windows 2008 R2 and SQL server 2008 R2. I have created a database and then in that database i have tried to import a backup of a database. The backu file is 460 GB big and it is on an external disk. During the import, about 60 % or 70 % i got error in vSphere 5 that there is no more space on that storage.
There is no more space for virtual disk Host_1-000001.vmdk. You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk space on the relevant volume and clicking retry.
The way i see it this 00001.vmdk was created by vsphere during the import, as a temp file, because i see its gone now. And it was like 300 GB big. How should i set up the datasetore and the vm? Should i have at least 600 GB free on the datastore to make sure that vSphere has enough space to create the temp file?
Thank you.