On esxi, 1 hard disk is problled into the virtual machine, but in fact there are 3 vmdk and 2 delta.vmdk in the storage, and there are no snapshots, how is this possible?

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There is an ESXi-5.1 host. It runs virtual machines. And here is the disk of one of them (Windows Server 2012) is located on the local ssd, in esxi itself. This disc is thin.

In the guest machine, this disk is visible as e:\ = 60GB, of which 26GB is occupied.

On ESXi, we see three disks -
srv_1.vmdk = 16GB
srv_1.000001.vmdk = 24GB
srv-1.000002.vmdk = 14GB

In total, the disks give more, and ESXi says the virtual machine needs to be consolidated. We did not make snapshots, in any case, they are not shown in VSphere.

And if you go via ssh, to esxi, and see what is on the disk, then in addition to those three vmdks, there are: srv_1.000001-delta.vmdk and srv_1.000002-delta.vmdk

Is this how a thin disk should work in esxi? Or is it some kind of glitch and is it better to create another virtual disk and transfer information there, and delete this one?

Answer 1

You say you didn't take snapshots? And they are...
About snapshot files in ESXi