I am having an issue with a esxi 4.0 host, first of all someone created a snapshot in 10/2010 and it has been running off it since, it grew so big that the datastore filled up and the machine would not boot. I cleared some space and got it to boot and then tried to delete the snapshot and it went down again because deleting a snapshot uses some free space as well. I cleared more space and booted it and the snapshot does not show in the snapshot manager but it appears to still be in the datastore. Another issue is that the datastore shows 100gb free but that is not the case, it has nothing free. Here are my questions, why is the datastore misreporting free space and how can i get rid of and merge the large 130gb old snapshot?
thanks
Josh