Just as I did some days ago, you may face the problem that you’re running out of diskpace on your C:\ drive (system drive) in VMWARE. Expanding the system drive is not as easy as expanding a non-system drive (like D:\, E:\ or whatever partitions you may have in your server :) )
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“Remove Snapshot: Operation Timed Out.” in VMWare ESX 3.5
When you (try to) delete a snapshot from a virtual machine in VMWare ESX 3.5, the following error may occur:
“Remove Snapshot: Operation Timed Out.”
Determine VMWARE ESX version
If you’re trying to find and view the VMWARE ESX version, the easiest way is to export a Report Summary.
From your Infrastructure Client:
- Choose the Inventory View
- Right click your host, and click Report Summary
- Choose a location to save the file
Howto: Recreate VMDK files
On VMWare ESX3, your VM has one or more VMDK files (extension .vmdk) and one or more flat vmdk files (last characters flat.vmdk )