Cannot boot 2003 vm, full virtual hard drive?

[prougeau]

Server will not boot. The vmdk file is at 40 gb and the max amount of space in the prefrences is 40gb! the physical box that is hosting the vmware esxi and vm's is not full it has about 8gb left of space. Would normally pull the hard drive on a physical box and hook it up to a usb data cable and delete some un needed data but it's a virtual machine and seems to be full? Thanks for any input.

 

[Provogeek]

The VMDK file beig 40GB isn't an indicator that the disk is full. On ESXi, the disk is preallocated creating a VMDK file the size of the virtual disk.

What error messages do you get when you attempt to power the machine on?

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[TheLad]

If you are sure that the 40Gb has definitely been used up, you could always mount the VMDK as a new drive on another VM, do your housekeeping, and mount it back on it's original VM?

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