{"id":3238,"date":"2018-04-25T22:41:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T22:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2018-05-31T23:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T23:00:27","slug":"vmware-disk-size-appearing-as-0mb-in-client-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/vmware\/vmware-disk-size-appearing-as-0mb-in-client-settings","title":{"rendered":"Vmware disk size appearing as 0MB in Client settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently had a virtual machine show up with a disk size of 0MB in the Vmware client. The machine was still running however Veeam backups were failing.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-0Yq_1gjiEco\/Vmy_HaUHP0I\/AAAAAAAAEbQ\/aC8U6BJYK8g\/s1600\/0kb.png\" alt=\"Image result for Vmware disk size 0kb\" \/><\/p><p>Checking the snapshots on this machine showed there was none however opening the VM folder in the datastore showed there were loads of snapshot files.<\/p><p>Running a consolidate on the Vmware Snapshots , then helped list the Snapshots which could be removed by the client\u00a0<\/p><p id=\"gCnTjMT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"889\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3240  img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_5ae103c8be68b.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_5ae103c8be68b.png 889w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_5ae103c8be68b-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_5ae103c8be68b-768x267.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\" \/><\/p><p>Removing the VM from the Esxi Host and re-adding this should do the same thing<\/p><p><strong>***Update***<\/strong><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Also try removing the CDRom Mapping if it maps to an Inactive NFS share<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently had a virtual machine show up with a disk size of 0MB in the Vmware client. The machine was still running however Veeam backups were failing.Checking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2430],"tags":[2431,2433,1278,2432,594],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","tag-0mb","tag-consolidate","tag-snapshots","tag-virtual-machine-disk","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}