VMware tip: There is no more space available for the virtual disk "***.VMDK" the failure and handling caused by the use of

yesterday noon received a customer call, described: Production environment has a server through the external network IP login, in the intranet IP SSH login also wrong password; suspected to have been compromised, immediately log in to the VMware ESXi management to log in to this virtual machine to view, and then restart this virtual machine, the results will not start. Errors such as:
"No more space available for virtual disks" *. VMDK is used, you may be able to continue this session by releasing disk space on the related volume and clicking Retry to terminate the session by clicking Cancel.

Problem Analysis:

View the remaining space of the shared storage is only 32G available, and this server's swap space is also 32g, 
infers that when a failure occurs, the space on the shared disk is exhausted, and the server is in an inactive state when it calls the swap space, causing the server to be out of active When the swap space is released and the power is switched off, VMware determines that there is not enough space to allocate and fails to start.

workaround:

1. Migrate this virtual machine; 2. Share storage plus hard drive; 3. Delete useless virtual machine; In this production environment, use the third method: Remove useless virtual machine can make room, normal boot, fault elimination. The next step is to apply for purchase expansion storage.

VMware tip: There is no more space available for the virtual disk "***.VMDK" the failure and handling caused by the use of