User`s guide
VMware Stage Manager User’s Guide
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Viewing Virtual Machine Datastore Usage
IntheVirtualMachineDatastoreUsagepage,Stage Manageradministratorscanassess
diskspaceusageforallvirtualmachinesandcompletemaintenancetasks.
Onthispage,atableincludesthisinformation:
Virtualmachinenamethatprovidesapop‐upmenuforoperations.
Nameoftheconfigurationcontainingthevirtualmachine.
Adashappearsinthiscolumnfortemplates.
VMFSdatastoreforthevirtualmachines.
Status(forexample,deployedorundeployed)ofthevirtualmachine.
Amountofspacethatyoucanreclaimupondeletingthevirtualmachine.
Thisspaceincludestheareaoccupiedbythevirtualmachinedirectoryand
“parent”directoriesuptoanancestorthathas“children”orotherdependent
directories.Forinformationaboutvirtualmachinedirectoriesanddiskspace
assessment,see“AssessingVirtualMachine
DiskSpace”onpage 85.
Numberofdeltadisksgeneratedbycertainoperations.
Forvariouschanges,Stage Managerfreezestheoriginaldeltadiskandcreatesa
newone.
Thechainlengthindicateshowscatteredthevirtualmachineimageisacrossthe
directoriesofadatastore.Stage Managermessagestheuserwhenyouneedto
consolidateachain.
Datetoautomaticallyundeployordeletevirtualmachines.
IfStage Managerflagsavirtualmachinefordeletionandthestorageleaseexpires,
thiscolumndisplaysthedateofexpiration.
UsetheDeleteExpiredVMsbuttononthispagetodeleteallundeployedvirtual
machineswithastorageleasethatexpired.Fromatable
onthepage,youcanviewthe
high‐leveltopographyofthevirtualmachinedirectories,consolidateanddeletevirtual
machines,andaccessvirtualmachineproperties.
N
OTEUsetheRefreshDiskSpacebuttontorefreshthediskspacetoviewa
currentestimateofthespace.