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lucien62
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May 09, 2019

Deleting snapshot of Windows Server VM inflates thin VMDKs, VMware says in-guest OS task responsible

Hello Microsoft community,   I'm currently investigating a strange issue we recently discovered in our vCenter:   Our thin-provisioned Windows Server 2012 VMs get their VMDKs inflated to maximum ...
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    May 09, 2019
    I did another test which will probably discard any issues with the guest OS (Windows): I powered off a VM with snapshot and deleted the snapshot. VMDKs inflated to maximum size.
    I'm closing this post.

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