Thursday, July 31, 2008

Vmware snapshots 160Gb!

One of our field ESX servers had a snapshot from Ranger that didn't get deleted, and grew to 160Gb, freezing the VM and making people at the site unable to log in. I set the snapshot to delete, but its been more than 24 hours in deleting.

Turns out the only way to view a snapshot being deleted is if the VM is on, you can run esxtop, then press "e" and enter the ID of the process for the VM. This will expand the process for that VM, and you check for SnapshotVMXCombo process for that group ID. This means the snapshot process is still running.

If the VM is off, there's apparently no way to tell if its still deleting or not. wow.

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