Hi
Recently we had backups fail for a VM <we use EMC avamar>, we browsed the datastore and had a look at the folder the vm was in and were very suprised by what we saw, <please see attached file.>
For those not familiar with Change Block Tracking the ctk-vmdk files are for CBT, there should be one ctk-vmdk file per vmdk file so I'm not so worried about those. What I don't understand is why the diskname-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.vmdk files are there, and more importantly how to get rid of them without losing any data.
The disk is 80GB thick provisioned which is also puzzling me as I'm not sure where my actual data is as the ucmbe5k.vmdk is only 14GB in size. It seems the UCMBE5K-6645811354e9c13 is now the real disk but I'm not sure why.
If anyone can shed some light on how I can get this back to one vmdk file that would be great. If you have any more questions let me know and I'll try and answer them for you.
The machine is RHEL.
thanks
anthony