This article guides you through determining if problems that you are having with virtual machine operations are due to insufficient disk space. It also provides best practices for minimum disk space requirements for normal virtual machine operations.
Symptoms:
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The virtual machine does not power on.
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Taking a snapshot fails.
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Suspending the virtual machine fails.
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You may see one or more of these errors:
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Check for missing files failed: Insufficient permissions.
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Cannot open the disk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
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The handle is invalid.
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Error taking snapshot:
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Failed to suspend the virtual machine.
- There is not enough disk space to save the virtual machine's state.
- Could not open paging file for 516 MB. No space left on device.
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Could not power on VM; No space left on device. Failed to power on VM