Increasing the size of a disk when a snapshot exists or deleting the wrong folder on your vmfs volume, it’s something that probably has happened to all of us. This usually means that you will either need to edit the current vmdk header file or even recreate it. Although it’s not a difficult task it’s still error prone cause it’s [...]

While doing a “mini-healthcheck” at a customer site I noticed a specific Datastore with less than 2% of free diskspace. After a bit of research an orphaned VMDK was found. Orphaned vmdk’s are virtual hard-disks that are not connected to a VM. Probably because they were removed from the inventory without deleting the files. You can easily find these orphaned [...]

Team Fusion wrote a great post on “defragging” vm’s and why you shouldn’t do it. Or at least be very careful about it. Make sure to read it! Before we begin, it’s important to note that defragmentation isn’t a necessary task – your virtual machine will still work just fine even if you never defrag, and the effects of fragmentation [...]