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Chapter 9 Managing Resources
View Virtual Machine Datastore Usage
By default, system administrators and administrators with rights at the organizational level can monitor disk
space usage for all virtual machines and perform maintenance tasks.
To view virtual machine datastore usage
1 In the left pane, click Resources .
2 On the Datastores tab, click View Datastore Usage .
You can display usage for one datastore by clicking the Datastores tab, moving the pointer over the
datastore name, and selecting Open .
3 Select the organization for which you want to view datastore usage.
Selecting Global displays datastore usage for all organizations.
Consider this information when reviewing your datastore usage:
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Disk Space Freed Upon Deletion (MB) – Displays the space freed after a virtual machine is deleted.
Includes the space occupied by the virtual machine directory and parent directories up to an ancestor that
has children or other dependent directories. For more information on virtual machine directories and disk
space assessment, see “Understanding Virtual Machine Datastore Directories” on page 98.
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Chain Length – Indicates how scattered the virtual machine image is across the datastore directories.
Lab Manager displays a message when you need to consolidate a chain.
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Cleanup Date – Displays the date that the virtual machine’s storage lease expires. Depending on the
resource cleanup settings specified by the system administrator, Lab Manager deletes the virtual machine
or marks it for deletion. See “Configuring Resource Cleanup Settings” on page 143.
Using the pop ‐ up menu, you can view the high ‐ level topography of the virtual machine directories,
consolidate and delete virtual machines, and access virtual machine properties.
View Virtual Machine Datastore Directories
In the Context view, the chain of virtual machine and internal node directories are to the right of the ancestor
directories. The boxes with thick borders represent virtual machines that you can see in the Web console.
The boxes with lighter borders represent the hidden internal directories associated with the virtual machines.
Deletion of internal nodes only occurs as a side effect of deleting the virtual machines associated with those
nodes.
To view virtual machine datastore directories
1 In the left pane, click Resources .
2 On the Datastores tab, click View Datastore Usage .
To view the usage on a single datastore, move the pointer over the datastore name and select Open .
3 Click Refresh Disk Space to ensure that the data is current.
4 Move the pointer over the virtual machine name and select Context .
To move data from one datastore to another, you can use SSMove, which is a utility installed on the Lab
Manager server. The SSMove utility is found in: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Lab Manager
Server\Tools\SSMove . See Appendix D, “Using SSMove,” on page 163 for more information.
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Your configuration files will only be accessible from the same host or datastore as the base template.
For example, if you have VM1 on DataStoreX, all the configurations you create from VM1 will be created on
DataStoreX. You can copy this virtual machine as the base template to other datastores. See “Add a Virtual
Machine Based on a Virtual Machine Template” on page 50 if you want to consolidate the configuration virtual
machines on different datastores.