I have to virtual machines on an Esxi 4.0 host that I am unable to change the system drive size on. I believe this is due to snapshot files that should not be there.
I have examined the datastore of these virtual machines and found files with names like:
'vmname'_1-000002.vmdk
'vmname'_1-000003.vmdk
These are virtual disk files and the first one in my example is is 5GB the second is 34.5GB
Are these safe to delete? If so do I delete them when the virtual machine is running or shut down?
Also when I go into snapshot manager for the VM's in question it says:
Consolidate Helper- 0
Do I delete the snapshots from snapshot manager? Will it delete them all, or do I have to do it manually?
Thanks.
AM