VMWare Virtual Disk files (.vmdk) from Snapshots piling up, cannot delete without breaking VM

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I'm using VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.1 with monolithic disk files (on a Win 10 host). I worked with snapshots, but always deleted them again because they're not needed anymore.

Unfortunately, it does not delete the Snapshot files from my disk, when I try to delete them by hand it says This file is required to power on this virtual machine. If this file was moved, specify the new location.

In my virtual machine settings, I see that disk is about ~58GB in size, which corresponds pretty much exactly to my 000011.vmdk file in the image below. How can I get rid of all the other files?

Thanks!

rgisi · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-04 19:05:15Z

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I found a working solution: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/57015 - option 2 (manual consolidation). This resulted in a ~75GB .vmdk file which works independently from the snapshot files.

answered May 4, 2020 at 19:05

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